Diabetes Inspired Culinary Education (DICE): Culinary Medicine Intervention for At-Risk Youth With Type 1 Diabetes

Case Western Reserve University

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Type 1 Diabetes

Treatments: Behavioral: Diabetes Inspired Culinary Education (DICE) - Phase 2; Behavioral: Diabetes Inspired Culinary Education (DICE) - Phase 1

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07084805

STUDY20230091

Details and patient eligibility

About

Diabetes Inspired Culinary Education (DICE) is an innovative family- and community-based culinary medicine intervention designed to mitigate racial/ethnic and socioeconomic status disparities in the treatment and health outcomes of at-risk youth with type 1 diabetes.

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Child Inclusion Criteria:

• Type 1 diabetes diagnosis for at least 12 months by study completion
• Poor glycemic control (1 HbA1c test results ≥ 7.0 % over the past 12 months or blood sugar levels > 155 mg/dL 3 or more times a week
• 8-14 years old
• English speaking

Caregiver Inclusion Criteria:

• Must be the primary caregiver of the participating child, (i.e., the individual who takes the lead role in helping the child manage their type 1 diabetes (e.g., monitoring blood sugars, planning meals/snacks, carbohydrate counting, etc.)
• 18 years of age or older
• English speaking

Child Exclusion Criteria:

• Not aged 8-14
• No demonstration of poor glycemic control
• Diagnosis of type 1 diabetes for less than 1 year by program completion
• Not English speaking

Caregiver Exclusion Criteria:

• Not the child's primary caregiver, (i.e., the individual who takes the lead role in helping the child manage their type 1 diabetes)
• Less than 18 years of age
• Not English speaking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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32 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Receive DICE intervention during phase 1 while waitlist control arm receives usual clinical care.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Diabetes Inspired Culinary Education (DICE) - Phase 1

Waitlist Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Receive DICE intervention during phase 2 while intervention arm receives usual clinical care.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Diabetes Inspired Culinary Education (DICE) - Phase 2