Support-t Online Training in Youth Living With Type 1 Diabetes Transitioning to Adult Care
Support-t, an Online Training and Peer Support Platform to Accompany Youth Living With Type 1 Diabetes Transitioning to Adult Healthcare
Anne-Sophie Brazeau
200 participants
Oct 7, 2024
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The investigators will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to examine how an online training and peer support platform could help the preparation to transition to adult care. Among 14-16 year old youth with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), the investigators aim to assess the effect of an online training and peer support platform (Support-t) integrated in usual care, compared with usual care on Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), adverse outcomes and psychosocial measures during the preparation for transition to adult care. The investigators will conduct a multi-site, parallel group, blinded (outcome assessors, data analysts), superiority RCT of adolescents with T1D (14-16 years of age) followed at one of 4 university teaching hospital-based pediatric diabetes clinics in the province of Quebec.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria6
- Adolescents with a clinical diagnosis of T1D
- years of age
- Receiving diabetes care at one of 4 university teaching hospital-based pediatric diabetes clinics in Quebec: Montreal Children's Hospital-McGill University Health Centre, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke, Le Copain-Hôpital de Gatineau, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec
- Having access to internet
- Having an active email address
- Fluent in English or French
Exclusion Criteria2
- Severe neurocognitive disabilities
- Patients with conditions associated with shortened erythrocyte survival, such as hemolytic anemia or other conditions associated with inaccurate HbA1c
Interventions
Support-t plus usual diabetes care for 18 months
Locations(4)
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NCT05910840