Children's Mercy Teens With Type 1 Diabetes Will Participate in an Online Peer Support Group.

Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Status: Completed

Conditions: Type 1 Diabetes

Treatments: Behavioral: Peer Support Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06412146

STUDY00003114

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this observational study is to examine the impact of an online peer support group in Children's Mercy teens with Type 1 Diabetes.

The main objectives are to examine the feasibility and acceptability of the Diabetes Link's online social platform Discord among youth with diabetes as it relates to peer support, diabetes management, and usability and to examine the efficacy/magnitude of the effect of the Discord group on treatment adherence among youth with diabetes.

Participants will participate in an online peer support group for 3 months and provide their feedback while doing so.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 19 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• T1D Diagnosis
• 16-19 years old
• 11th-12th graders
• Access to smartphone/laptop
• English-speaking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

Peer Support Group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Peer Support Group