Tele Nursing Application For Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Adolescents

University of Yalova

Status: Completed

Conditions: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus; Adolescent; Telenursing

Treatments: Behavioral: educational intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05211479

2020-14

Details and patient eligibility

About

Studies have shown that tele-nursing practice is effective in children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, but the number of studies conducted is very few. No study examining the concepts of metabolic control, self-efficacy, quality of life and anxiety together was found in the literature review. With this study, it is aimed that diabetes education given by tele-nursing has an effect on metabolic control, self-efficacy, quality of life and anxiety level of adolescents with type 1 diabetes, and that diabetic adolescents can easily obtain the information they need about nursing care when they cannot come to the clinic.

Enrollment: 67 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• The child is between the ages of 12-18,
• After the information, the adolescent agrees to participate in the study, and the parent gives written consent,
• The child can understand and speak Turkish,
• Parent's ability to understand and speak Turkish,
• Having a smart phone and having access to the internet,
• Having been diagnosed with T1DM at least 1 year ago,
• Being on insulin therapy by the subcutaneous route,
• Coming to the outpatient clinic at least once every 3 months.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age younger than 12 or older than 18,
• Having another chronic disease,
• Using an insulin pump
• Having vision and hearing problems,
• Using the Continuous Glucose Tracking System,
• Having a physical or mental disability.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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67 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Tele-nursing will be applied to adolescents in this group for 24 weeks. Weekly meeting and blood glucose monitoring will be done. The HbA1c value will be checked and the scales will be filled by meeting 3 times in total with 3 months intervals.

Treatment:

Behavioral: educational intervention

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

This group will be given face-to-face training only in the first encounter. During the research, no interviews will be provided through tele nursing. Only at the 3rd and 6th months will be interviewed to measure the HbA1c value and to fill the scales.