Applying the "New Authority" Model in the Treatment of Poorly Controlled Diabetic Adolescents and Their Families

Sheba Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Type 1 Diabetes

Treatments: Behavioral: experimental protocol treatment "The New Authority"

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02093676

SHEBA-13-0770-YRK-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is presumed that families of poorly controlled diabetic adolescents (type 1) would benefit from parents' counselling, guided by "the New Authority" model.

Full description

"The New Authority" model has been shown to be helpful in risk behaviors such as children's violence and school refusal. It is assumed the model would prove helpful in the risk behavior of lack of adherence to diabetes treatment regimen. The treatment is give to parents only, without the adolescent's participation. It is predicted to improve self care, parents' monitoring, family conflict and parents' helplessness.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosis of diabetes type 1
• condition duration a year or more

Exclusion criteria

• family does not speak Hebrew
• adolescent doesn't live at home
• serious psychiatric condition in the family

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 1 patient group

parents counseling

Experimental group

Description:

parents counseling guided by the experiment protocol

Treatment:

Behavioral: experimental protocol treatment "The New Authority"