Teleconsultation in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (TELEDIAB)

Niguarda Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Treatments: Other: Standard; Other: Teleconsultation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02812498

535-B-102014

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects on glycemic control of Teleconsultation versus standard visit in outpatient clinic for patients affected by type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Full description

The growing incidence of diabetes and the need to contain health care costs empower the necessity to identify new models to cope with regular periodic follow up of patients affected by diabetes mellitus. Telemedicine offers an acknowledged instrument to provide clinical health care at a distance, increasing patient compliance and the achievement of therapeutical goals. This study wants to verify the feasibility and the efficacy of teleconsultation in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. In particular by a randomized controlled approach the effects on glycemic control of patients followed by teleconsultation or traditionally in standard visit in the outpatient clinic. The patients in the teleconsultation group will arrange their bookings on a website (http://www.telediabete-fid.it/) In this website they could also access to web educational courses (mainly nutrition, insulin management, glucose monitoring auto-control) or to nutritional and psychological counselling.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients affected by type 1 diabetes mellitus, 5-50 years old under multi injection insulin therapy or under continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion
• with a feasible web access

Exclusion criteria

• without a feasible web access
• that need a periodic physical examination

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

Teleconsultation

Experimental group

Description:

Teleconsultation for patients affected by type 1 diabetes mellitus

Treatment:

Other: Teleconsultation

Control

Other group

Description:

Standard visit in outpatient clinic for the same type of patients

Treatment:

Other: Standard