Changes in the Dietary Patterns of Adults in Care of a Newly Diagnosed Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Child

Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1; Dietary Habits; Parents

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07142681

IIBSP-DDM-2023-166

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this observational study is to compare the feeding pattern evolution in parents whose children have been newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus, versus one year later. The main question it aims to answer is:

- Does the dietary intervention in the pediatric population affect the parent's diet?

Full description

Parents with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes infant will be identified upon hospital admission.

Parents will be informed about the study and asked if they are willing to participate. If affirmative, the participant parent will sign the informed consent, and one of the investigators will hand over the different questionnaires. A brief physical exploration will be performed.

After one year, and coinciding with any programmed visit to the hospital, questionnaires will be handed over again, together with the repetition of the brief physical exploration.

The questonnairs include: Food register, Mediterranean adherence, physical activity, pediatric anxiety, and hospital anxiety and depression scale questionnaires.

Data will be extracted from the questionnaires, and analyzed.

Enrollment: 26 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Over 18 years old
• Parents or legal tutors of a child with type 1 diabetes (according to ADA criteria).
• Less than 1 week since the type 1 diabetes diagnostic.
• Living together more than 40%of the time with the infant with type 1 diabetes.
• Be the adult responsible for most of the family meals.

Exclusion criteria

• Parents of infants with other types of diabetes (type 2, MODY, gestational, others).
• Household members with diseases or conditions that can affect dietary habits (type 2 diabetes, kidney disease, pregnancies).
• Significant dietary habit modifications (change to a vegeterian, vegan, palea, or other diets, fasting situations) in the last month prior to the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes.

Trial design