Актуальні питання стану та тенденції розвитку дослідницьких робіт за напрямком «Дитяча діабетологія»

The objective is to improve the scientific and informational support of specialists in the field of health care for children and adolescents in Pediatric Endocrinology direction. Material and methods. The study was carried out according to the base of the abstracts of research (39) and dissertation papers (79), conducted in Ukraine in 2001-2017 on topical issues of pediatric endocrinology on the basis of the use of semantic, informational, scientometric, bibliographic, patent and statistical methods. To study the awareness of physicians about the scientific product, created in Pediatric Endocrinology direction, the questionnaire developed by the authors was used. Results and discussion. The article presents data on the development of the research process in pediatric endocrinology direction over a long period (2001-2017). The quantitative indicators of the increase of scientific research and dissertation papers, their thematic orientation, volume and structure of the created scientific product, its use by specialists in pediatric endocrinology are shown. Conclusions. The results of the study indicate that the research process in Ukraine is consistently carried out in urgent directions of pediatric endocrinology, including diabetology, an appropriate information and innovation resource is being created, the main content of which is: improving the early diagnosis of diabetes, identifying risk factors for its occurrence in children and adolescents, the development of therapy according to the treatment protocols of this contingent of patients, the improvement of dispensary observation, training patients with diabetes on self-control principles, rehabilitation of children and adolescents in sanatorium conditions. Extremely important is the further development of scientometric study in the direction of pediatric endocrinology for the selection of promising and priority studies, monitoring of research developments and scientific and technical products to improve the implementation of research results in the practice of pediatric endocrinologists, optimizing their scientific information support.