2026 · Journal of pediatric psychology · paywalled
Positive psychological resources, self-management behavior, and glycemic outcomes in adolescents with type 1 diabetes and elevated diabetes distress
Ream et al.
The finding, in our words
Positive psychological resources were linked to better self-management behaviour and health-related quality of life in adolescents with type 1 diabetes and high diabetes distress, indicating that interventions focusing on diabetes strengths could improve engagement and wellbeing.
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This review establishes that microsampling across blood, saliva, urine and stool matrices offers validated workflows and regulatory recognition for human biomonitoring comparable to conventional methods. It finds that these decentralised approaches enhance participant acceptability and enable screening in remote or low-resource settings.
In an adolescent with cerebral palsy undergoing a home-based, remotely supervised sprint-intensity interval training intervention, dried blood spot testing demonstrated a 37.8% reduction in triglycerides and a 15.4% improvement in total cholesterol to HDL ratio. This illustrates how remote microsampling can support decentralized metabolic monitoring in pediatric disability rehabilitation.
Frequent dried blood spot sampling detected early changes in beta-cell function more effectively than mixed-meal tolerance tests or urine ratios, supporting its potential as a decentralised monitoring tool for clinical trials.
Dunseath et al., Diabetes care (paywalled) · source ↗
In a 20-person proof-of-concept pilot among veterans with HIV, remote self-collection of dried blood spots for phosphatidylethanol monitoring was feasible and acceptable, with high return and analysis rates and positive feedback; a small first step toward decentralised alcohol biomarker monitoring rather than proof of it.
Sheinfil et al., Journal of substance use and addiction treatment (paywalled) · source ↗
Dried blood spot screening of 3210 neonates in an Eastern Indian province found 10.2% had an inherited disorder, most commonly partial biotinidase deficiency (4.5%) and G6PD deficiency (2.7%), with no sex difference except higher 17-OHP in males; the findings justify national newborn screening to reach all communities.
Saharia et al., Journal of tropical pediatrics (paywalled) · source ↗