Blood Glucose Awareness Training for Parents

University of Virginia

Status

Completed

Conditions

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1

Treatments

Behavioral: Blood Glucose Awareness Training for Parents

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00315991

12202

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test a training program for parents of children with T1DM.

Full description

Successful diabetes management relies on a process of self-regulation in which treatment behavior is guided by feedback about changing blood glucose (BG) levels and decision-making. The processes involved in self-regulation have been studied extensively in adults with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM), leading to the development of sophisticated research tools that have significantly advanced our understanding and ability to predict clinical outcome. Additionally, this research has led to the development of a highly effective, empirically based,pyschobehavioral intervention, Blood Glucose Awareness Training (BGAT) that improves self-regulation and clinical outcome in adults with T1DM. Unfortunately, the processes involved in the self-regulation of pediatric diabetes have received virtually no empirical attention. The purpose of this project is to correct the scientific neglect of the self-regulation in pediatric diabetes by adapting the conceptual and methodological tools used in adult studies to investigate the process of diabetes regulation by school-aged children (6-11 years) with T1DM and their parents and to develop and test an intervention to enhance the skills critical to this process.

Enrollment

77 patients

Sex

All

Ages

6 to 11 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Parent/Guardian with primary responsibility for a child's diabetes management
Child with T1DM between the ages 6 - 11 years.
Duration of child's diabetes > 1 year
Routine self-testing of child's BG > 2x day
Intention to remain in the study's geographical region for the next 5 months
Have a computer at home

Exclusion criteria

Significant comorbidity in the child that could interfere with BG awareness or psychosocial status
Medications taken by the child that interfere with symptom perception
Psychiatric disorder in a parent or child
Cognitive deficits/learning disabilities in the child that might preclude ability to complete the study protocol.