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Received: 13 March 2025

Accepted: 21 May 2025

First Online: 8 August 2025

Acknowledgements

: We thank the parents who participated in a parental focus group to share their experiences of the financial impact of parenting children with type 1 diabetes, thereby contributing to the rationale for our project. Preliminary findings from the current study were presented to the group, and the parents had the opportunity to reflect on the results. The group did not participate in the interpretation of the results or the writing of the manuscript. Our findings were presented at the Swedish ‘Endodiabetes’ conference, held in Linköping, Sweden, in March 2025. No preprint has been published.

: Restrictions apply to the availability of the data, which were used under license and ethical approval and are not publicly available. However, data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request and with written permission of the Swedish Ethical Review Authority, subject to legal contracts regarding the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Personal Data Processing Agreements between Uppsala University and the receiving research entity.

: Open access funding provided by Uppsala University. This research was partly funded by Forte, the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (2020-00372), through a grant awarded to TF, and by the Swedish Diabetes Foundation, the Swedish Child Diabetes Foundation, and the Family Ernfors Fund through grants awarded to BK. BK was further supported by a Gullstrand Research Fellow grant from Uppsala University Hospital. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, manuscript writing or the decision to submit the article for publication.

: TF is a member of the editorial board of Diabetologia. The authors declare that there are no other relationships or activities that might bias, or be perceived to bias, their work.

: The study was designed by BK, M-LW, SL, CB, LB, EG and TF. TF and BK obtained the funding, BK acquired the data, M-LW performed the statistical analysis and BK wrote the first draft. All authors contributed with invaluable support for data analyses, interpretation of findings and critical revision of the article, and have approved the final version for publication. BK is the guarantor of this work and affirms that this manuscript is an honest, accurate and transparent account of the study.