DAWN Youth at World Diabetes Day

Read more about the DAWN Youth Workshop in New York here

Highlights from the DAWN Youth Summit can be viewed here

Preliminary DAWN Youth Results for WDD
A key focus point for DAWN Youth on the WDD 2007 is school and diabetes and interim results from the global research programme is now shedding the first important light on a topic which has been gravely underrecognized and underprioritized for many years.

First interim results from the DAWN Youth WebTalk are made available specifically to the school issue in response to the World Diabetes Day. Across countries approximately 40% of parents experience that diabetes has a moderate to major impact on their child’s performance in school. Less than 10% of parents said their child could rely on help from a nurse or health worker at school, except in Japan and US. Across countries approximately half of parents were satisfied with the support in schools.

This finding is now supported by the just available results from a survey of 166 pediatric diabetes healthcare professionals from 42 countries who were surveyed at the ISPAD Congress in Berlin in September 25th-28th. 89% of the pediatricians called for a major improvement in support for children in schools.

The DAWN Youth global initiative provides solutions and opportunities for radical improvement in connection with the Year of the Child with Diabetes in 2008, together with IDF and ISPAD.