Transition of Diabetes Care From Pediatric to Adult Healthcare Providers.

Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes Who Attend Pre-transition Classes, Are Better Prepared to Transition Their Care From Pediatric to Adult Providers

A dedicated pre-transition class, as proposed in this study, could help facilitate a smooth transition between pediatric and adult diabetes care. The innovation in this study is that these classes are an opportunity for the patients and their families to meet with the Adult Diabetes Team consisting of a diabetologist, RD and CDE, prior to the transition of care. Having met them would then increase the likelihood of compliance with the Adult clinic visits.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Transition
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Transition classes

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 55
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Pennsylvania
    • Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, 17033
      • Penn State Hershey Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years to 21 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes

Exclusion Criteria:

Not wanting to participate in the classes

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Patients attending the classes; The patients attending the transition classes will receive a survey to assess transition preparedness before and after attending the class.	Other: Transition classes; 90 minutes spent with patients and their families (separately) to review the changes and challenges associated with healthcare transition and help alleviate some of the barriers traditionally associated with this process.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Transition preparedness	Patients with be given the modified TRAQ questionnaire before and after the program. A team consisting of an adult diabetes provider, diabetes nurse educator and dietitian will meet in small groups with adolescents between ages 16-18 years to provide them with 'adult specific' goals and discuss various topics like college preparedness, expectations from adult providers, potential changes in dynamics of diabetes management etc.	1 month

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Kanthi Bangalore Krishna, MD, PSHMC

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 13, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 30, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): June 30, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 11, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 14, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): February 18, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): December 24, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 22, 2020
• Last Verified: December 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: STUDY0007974

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

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

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No