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Prevention Strategies for Adolescents at Risk of Diabetes

Completed
Conditions
Type 2 Diabetes
Chronic Disease
Interventions
Other: No intervention
Registration Number
NCT02545140
Lead Sponsor
University Hospitals, Leicester
Brief Summary

The primary aim of PRE-STARt Phase 1 is to pragmatically evaluate and refine a risk assessment tool to identify those children with chronic disease risk factors (including Type 2 Diabetes).

Detailed Description

Data will be collected in 5 European Commission countries (500 adolescents in total). A range of biological and lifestyle measures will be collected in order to investigate the adolescent's lifestyle and will include body weight and other anthropometric measurements, blood pressure, blood capillary sample, self-reported physical activity, sedentary behaviour and dietary habits. Their parent/guardian will complete a number of questions to gather information about variables that have been associated with chronic disease (including type 2 diabetes) and include peri-natal history (birth weight, gestational diabetes), socioeconomic status, family health and medical history.

A draft risk tool to identify those children with a 'higher risk' of developing type 2 diabetes in the future has been developed systematic review results and a Delphi procedure. This draft tool will be evaluated and refined. This draft risk tool will be evaluated by independent clinical reviewers against the data collected from the 500 adolescent data sets. The results for each adolescent will be independently reviewed by clinicians who will assign either a "lower" or "higher" risk to each case. The results will be compared to the results from the draft 'PRE-START tool', used to further refine this identification tool using appropriate statistical methods.

The outputs of this study will be a fit for purpose 'PRE-STARt tool' that can be used for recruitment to interventional studies whose primary objective is to reduce the risk of developing chronic disease (including type 2 diabetes) in the future.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
634
Inclusion Criteria
  • Young people aged between 12-14 years of age
  • be willing and able to give assent
  • have obtained written parent/guardian consent.
Exclusion Criteria
  • are outside the age range of interest (i.e. aged less than 12 years or greater than 14 years of age)
  • do not have parental consent or do not give assent
  • have an existing diagnosis of type 1 or type 2 diabetes

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
UK (Lead Site)No interventionData will be collected from 100 adolescents from each participating site providing clinical data for 500 adolescents providing a cross-sectional cohort from each of the following countries: UK (Lead Site) Germany Portugal Greece Spain (Basque Country)
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Chronic disease risk factor - Body mass index (BMI)12 months

Height and weight will be measured to calculated BMI

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Chronic disease risk factor - waist circumference12 months
Chronic disease risk factor - glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c)12 months
Chronic disease risk factor - high density lipoprotein cholesterol12 months
Chronic disease risk factor - glucose12 months

Fasted and/or unfasted

Chronic disease risk factor - triglycerides12 months
Chronic disease risk factor - blood pressure12 months
Chronic disease risk factor - low density lipoprotein cholesterol12 months

Calculated

Chronic disease risk factor - total cholesterol12 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Hospitals of Leicester

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Leicester, United Kingdom

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