Abstract This is a quantitative descriptive exploratory study. The goals were to characterize children Diabetes mellitus type I who were under intensive insulin treatment and presented insulin lipodystrophy. Data were gather from 104 children’s chart (under 13 years old), attended at the Instituto da Criança, from 2004 to 2005. Variables analyzed were: previous knowledge about diabetes, insulin (type, administration way, self-administration, sites used and rotation) and lipodystrophy incidence. All children received previous counseling about diabetes; the most used insulin was […]