Reducing Hypoglycemia Fear in Parents of Young Children With Type 1 Diabetes (REDCHiP)

University of Kansas

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parents

Treatments: Behavioral: REDCHiP

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03879642

R21HD081502

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pilot of a novel video-based telemedicine intervention to reduce fear of hypoglycemia in parents of young children with type 1 diabetes.

Full description

This was a two group randomized controlled study using a wait-list control design. All participating parents had the opportunity to receive 10 video-based telemedicine sessions administered over 13 weeks. Study assessments took place at baseline, post-treatment, and 3 month followup. Study outcomes included parent reported hypoglycemia fear, parenting stress, diabetes distress, and child glycated hemoglobin.

Enrollment: 43 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 6 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents of children, between 1-6 years old, with type 1 diabetes for at least 6 months, on either multiple daily injections or an insulin pump, and parents speak English

Exclusion criteria

• Families of children who are older than 6 years-old and or do not have type 1 diabetes; children follow a conventional insulin regimen

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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43 participants in 2 patient groups

REDCHiP

Experimental group

Description:

10 week video-based telemedicine intervention to reduce parents hypoglycemia fear

Treatment:

Behavioral: REDCHiP

Waitlist

No Intervention group

Description:

10 week no intervention to provide waitlist control condition