Pilot Study of Connected Diabetes Technology

University of California (UC) Davis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1

Treatments: Behavioral: Application Use

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04106440

1447976

Details and patient eligibility

About

To test the hypothesis that remote sharing of health data - including measured blood glucose values as well as patient-reported carbohydrate counts and insulin doses - with the UC Davis Pediatric Diabetes team via connected health applications is feasible for pediatric patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes.

Enrollment: 41 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Newly diagnosed with T1D in the past 6 weeks
• Daily access to the internet via a wireless connection

Exclusion criteria

• Does not plan to attend the UC Davis Pediatric Endocrinology clinic for future diabetes care
• Primary caregiver does not speak English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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41 participants in 2 patient groups

Application Use

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be asked to use applications to track food intake, carbohydrate counts, insulin delivered, and blood sugar values and share the data with the study team.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Application Use

Standard of Care

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will receive usual care during their hospitalizations at the time of diabetes diagnosis, and during the time between hospital discharge and first visit to the UCD Pediatric Diabetes clinic.