Parents' Occupation After Diabetes Onset

Completed

• Conditions: Type 1 Diabetes

• Registration Number: NCT04814849
• Lead Sponsor: Hannover Medical School

Brief Summary

A cross-sectional multicenter study using a questionnaire assessing occupational and financial situation before and after the onset of type 1 diabetes was distributed to all families with a child diagnosed with type 1 diabetes before the age of 14 years in nine German pediatric diabetes centers.

Detailed Description

This cross-sectional multicenter study was conducted between January and June 2018 during a three months period per center. The selected nine pediatric diabetes centers covered all regions of Germany. The study participants were mothers, fathers, or other primary caregivers of children and adolescents diagnosed with type 1 diabetes before 14 years of age. During a regularly scheduled medical visit, in Germany usually 4 per year, families were informed about the study procedure, its aims and anonymous data collection and analyses. The answered questionnaires were either collected in a closed box in each diabetes center or could be sent anonymously via a prepaid envelope to the study administration center.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-12-01
• Primary Completion: 2018-06-30
• Study Completion: 2018-12-31
• Status Verified: 2021-03
• Study First Submitted: 2021-03-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-03-23
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-03-23
• Study First Posted: 2021-03-24
• Last Update Posted: 2021-03-24

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1144

Inclusion Criteria

• mothers, fathers or other primary caregivers of children and adolescents diagnosed with type 1 diabetes before 14 years of age
• child's diabetes duration at least 12 months
• child's age under 19 years

Exclusion Criteria

• caregivers unability to understand German language sufficiently

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
occupational situation of parents	up to 12 weeks	questionnaire with 7 items to capture changes in occupational situation of parents after the onset of type 1 diabetes in their child
number of participants reporting financial burden	up to 12 weeks	questionnaire to capture changes in occupational situation of parents after the onset of type 1 diabetes in their child

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
number of participants reporting emotional and/or psychosocial burden	up to 12 weeks	questionnaire to capture psychosocial and emotional burden of parents in the year following the diagnosis of diabetes in a child

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hannover Medical School; 🇩🇪 Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany