Creative Arts Diabetes Initiative for Youth/Young Adults Transitioning to Adult Care (CADI)

Creative Arts Diabetes Initiative: Group Art Therapy and Peer Support for Youth and Young Adults Transitioning From Pediatric to Adult Diabetes Care

The Creative Arts Diabetes Initiative will offer facilitated art therapy with a group/peer-support environment to two groups of youth/young adults, one with type 1 diabetes, and one with type 2 diabetes. This environment intends to "meet youth where they are", promote universality, hope and self-understanding, has the potential to be therapeutic and allows youth to express and learn about themselves and each other while developing healthy coping skills and address their fears and concerns.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1; Coping Behavior; Emotional Distress
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Art therapy - pre and post test measures

Detailed Description

The Creative Arts Diabetes Initiative will offer facilitated art therapy with a group/peer-support environment to two groups of youth/young adults, one with type 1 diabetes, and one with type 2 diabetes. This environment intends to "meet youth where they are", promote universality, hope and self-understanding, has the potential to be therapeutic and allows youth to express and learn about themselves and each other while developing healthy coping skills and address their fears and concerns.

As much of diabetes management is about meeting physical health goals - it is the vision of this study that offering additional support in the form of art therapy will have positive effects for bringing awareness and avenues for self-care to the other often neglected dimensions of patients' mental, emotional and spiritual health as part of a more holistic health process.

Engaging in art therapy has the potential to decrease diabetes related distress by giving youth a means and opportunity to identify, understand and express their feelings about having diabetes. Improved self-awareness and self-reflectiveness can help youth integrate their feelings and learn how this can motivate, influence and impact their behaviors and life choices.

Youth will have the opportunity for engaging in peer support, and to build relationships that are meaningful, thus increasing their sense of belonging and positively affect their level of self-confidence, purpose and wellbeing.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 12
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Canada
  • Manitoba
    • Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3E 3P4
      • University of Manitoba

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 15 years to 24 years (ADULT, CHILD)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• diagnosed with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes, live within weekly travel distance to Winnipeg, Manitoba, receive their pediatric care at the Diabetes Education Resource for Children and Adolescents, or who are members of the Maestro Project

Exclusion Criteria:

• those who cannot give informed consent or who are not able to attend regular sessions due to travel distance

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Allocation: NA
• Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
OTHER: Art therapy - pre and post test measures; 20 young adults aged 15-24 years with diabetes (10 with type 1 diabetes and 10 with type 2 diabetes) receiving 12 weeks of group art therapy. Participants serve as their own controls.	Behavioral: Art therapy - pre and post test measures; 12 weeks of 90 minutes of art therapy with pre and post test measures to determine changes in social support and levels of diabetes distress

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Decrease diabetes related distress	Decrease diabetes related distress as measured by the Diabetes Attitudes Wishes and Needs Study (DAWN) Problem Areas in Diabetes Questionnaire (PAID).	12 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Increase social support	Increase emotional and social support for youth as measured by Measures of Support (MOS) Social Support Survey.	12 weeks
Increase emotional	Increase emotional and social support for youth as measured by Mental Health Continuum Short Form (MHC-SF)	12 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Manitoba
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Seth D Marks, MD,MSc,FRCPC, University of Manitoba, Pediatric Endocrinology

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• young adult diabetes transition support service

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: April 1, 2016
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): January 21, 2019
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): January 21, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 25, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 31, 2016
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): June 6, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): January 23, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 21, 2019
• Last Verified: January 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: children; type 2 diabetes; adolescents; young adults; transition; type 1 diabetes; youth; behavioral therapy; art therapy
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Glucose Metabolism Disorders; Metabolic Diseases; Immune System Diseases; Autoimmune Diseases; Endocrine System Diseases; Diabetes Mellitus; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
• Other Study ID Numbers: HS19577 (H2016:119)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED