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To explore and describe the experiences of adolescents and their parents living with type 1 diabetes, to identify their needs for support to improve adolescents’ self‐management skills in the transition from child‐ to adulthood.

Adolescents with type 1 diabetes often experience deteriorating glycaemic control and distress. Parents are important in adolescents’ ability to self‐manage type 1 diabetes, but they report anxiety and frustrations. A better understanding of the challenges adolescents and parents face, in relation to the daily self‐management of type 1 diabetes, is important to improve clinical practice.

A qualitative explorative study using visual storytelling as part of individual interviews.

A purposive sample of nine adolescents and their parents (seven mothers, six fathers) took photographs illustrating their experiences living with type 1 diabetes. Subsequently …