Adapting Mobile Communication Technology to Improve the Management of Adolescents With Diabetes
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 105
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Quality of Parent-child Relationship
研究概览
简要总结
Among those with type I diabetes, adolescents can be among the worst at achieving glycemic control. Behaviors normal in adolescent development (e.g., developing independence, rejecting parental norms in favor of peers) can be at odds with the demands of effective diabetes self-management. Modifying the family and patient interaction should be a crucial component to improving the ability of an adolescent to manage his or her diabetes.
Mobile technology is becoming more popular in medicine, and adolescents, as a group are more inclined to accept technology as an adjunct to care. Mobile technology that links adolescents to health providers could help them to work through complex information that must be processed to make good decisions. Since this "assistance" comes from health professionals, it should help relax parents somewhat, thus reducing problems associated with parental hypervigilance and manipulation of the regimen to avoid problems of hypoglycemia. Parental-child conflicts may therefore be reduced by using cell phone glucose monitoring technology that directly reports self-blood glucose monitoring data to providers and creates a communication link to discuss therapeutic options.
This study investigates whether the use of mobile technology, in the form of a cell phone glucose monitoring system, will help reduce the need for parents to assert behavioral control, which can negatively impact adolescent diabetes self-management. The study will also determine whether adolescents report improved quality of life, demonstrate competence in diabetes management, and are able to achieve better control of their diabetes.
详细描述
Among patients with type I diabetes, adolescents struggle the most with self-management, which often results in poor glycemic control. Optimizing parent-patient interaction is crucial to improving self-management. Mobile technology with integrated glucose monitoring capability that links adolescents to providers may reduce parental hypervigilance and assist them to better understand self-management. .
This study will investigate a novel cell phone glucose monitoring system (CPGM) with the following specific aims:
- To establish feasibility of a CPGM system as a component of an adolescent diabetes management program.
- To determine if the technology will improve a) quality of parent-child relationship, b) patient quality of life, c) competence in diabetes management, and d) metabolic control.
- To gather preliminary data for development of future intervention studies.
120 adolescents with type I diabetes will be randomly assigned to either an experimental or control group. Experimental subjects will use the CPGM which will transmit all blood glucose data to a host computer. A nurse practitioner in the pediatric endocrinology clinic will determine need for telephone contacts based on evaluation of transmitted data. Subjects might be telephoned to discuss possible regimen adjustments, need for clinic visits, or referrals to additional services. Subjects will also be able to initiate contact with the project nurse. Control subjects will continue to receive standard care. .
This study will assess the effect of the intervention in the four primary domains stated in the specific aims. These domains will be measured at baseline, three months, and six months.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 14 Years 至 18 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Adolescent with thpe 1 diabetes
- •Adolescents in the study must intend to remain in the care of participating clinics for the extent of the study
- •Adolescents in the study must be literate in English.
排除标准
- •Only one patient per family can participate
- •Patients who participated in preliminary studies related to the development of the cell phone technology will be excluded.
研究组 & 干预措施
Glucopak Care
Glucopak cell phone and intensive monitoring. This group will be given the experimental device, and placed in close communication with the clinic.
干预措施: GlucoPak (Device)
Cell Phone Care
Cell phone only, without the Glucopak. Participants will be given cell phones and encouraged to communicate more closely with the clinic, but will not use the Glucopak.
干预措施: Cell Phone (Device)
Usual Care
Usual care, without cell phone or glucopak
干预措施: Usual Care (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Quality of Parent-child Relationship
时间窗: Change from baseline to 6 months. Please see above for a description of how the change score should be interpreted.
The Cornell Parent Behavior Description Scale was used to measure the antecedents and consequences of children's perceptions of the behavior of their parents towards them. Each of 14 subscales is scored from 0-10. The potential range of the total score is therefore 0 (fewest behaviors) to 140 (most behaviors). We used the total score, which is equivalent to the sums of the subscales, and calculated the change from baseline to 6 months. The range of the change is given as a 95% CI. A change of zero would indicate no change. A positive number is a worsening , and a negative number indicates an improvement.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Aaron Carroll
Assoc. Prof of Pediatrics
Indiana University