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Type A behaviour pattern and glycaemic control in type I diabetes
1Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School (University of London), Department of Psychiatry, West Middlesex University Hospital, Isleworth, UK.
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
People who exhibit the type A behaviour pattern have different approaches to problems compared with their non-type A counterparts. On the basis of published work on such differences, a number of predictions were tested in 85 outpatients with type I diabetes. Contrary to expectations, no differences were observed in glycaemic control between type A and non-type A diabetics of either sex. However, dividing type A diabetics according to their health locus of control beliefs yielded significantly different groups in terms of glycaemic control.