Sugarsquare. Focus on the Adolescent: Digital Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes Through the Internet
NCT ID: NCT01249742
Last Updated: 2010-11-30
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
65 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2009-02-28
2010-11-30
Brief Summary
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The treatment of diabetes is multidisciplinary. Alignment of care of the various professional disciplines is, however, not always optimal. This can lead to confusion about treatment interventions and behavioral advices. In adolescence, good fine-tuned care is of extreme importance because of the difficulties in regulation of the disease in this phase of life (Snoek, 2004). These difficulties are due to biological changes but also to socio-psychological developmental changes. The adolescents' psychological development demands more autonomy and responsibility for the diabetes (care) by the adolescent. The social development can conflict with the treatment regime, because of the adolescents' social needs (ADA, 2001; Houdijk, 1998; Snoek, 2004). In this study the investigators assess whether an interactive website, on which adolescents with diabetes and their treatment team can communicate, leads to better alignment of care and better control over the disease.
Intervention
The diabetes has great impact on the adolescents' everyday life. Finding a balance between more autonomy, participating in social life with (healthy) peers and control of the disease is difficult and seems to act as a thread during this phase in life.
This can lead to questions and uncertainty at any given moment. The interactive website provides the adolescent access to information and to his or her individual treatment plan and advices fitted to his or her condition and life. The adolescent can pose questions at any given moment through the online forum and their personal treatment page. Since the treatment team answers the question within a day, fit between diabetes care and adolescents' everyday life is optimized.
Research question
Does an online interactive treatment environment, on which adolescents with diabetes can communicate with their treatment team, lead to better fit of care and to better disease control?
Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
NONE
Interventions
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Internet intervention
Our intervention, Sugarsquare, is a secured treatment environment only accessible by patients of the KDCN and members of the treatment team. Sugarsquare consists of two main sections. The first section is a semi-public setting on which adolescents can exchange experiences with their diabetes (care) through a forum and a real time chat-application. All patients and treatment team members can see all messages posted here. The second section consists of patients' individual pages with treatment overview and an application for private interaction with the treatment team. Patients can only access their own individual page; treatment team members can access pages of all patients. Sugarsquare is a secured webpage, accessible only through computers equipped with the right certificate (access device) and by using the appointed username-password combination.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* diagnosed with diabetes mellitus;
* receiving regular outpatient hospital-delivered diabetes care provided by the Children's Diabetes Center Nijmegen (CDCN)
Exclusion Criteria
12 Years
21 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Dutch Diabetes Research Foundation
OTHER
Radboud University Medical Center
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Radboud University Nijmegen, Medical Center
Principal Investigators
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Emiel Boogerd, MSc.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Radboud University Nijmegen, Medical Center
Chris Verhaak, Dr.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Radboud University Nijmegen, Medical Center
Kees Noordam, Dr.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Radboud University Nijmegen, Medical Center
Locations
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Children's Diabetes Center Nijmegen
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Countries
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References
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Boogerd EA, Noordam C, Kremer JA, Prins JB, Verhaak CM. Teaming up: feasibility of an online treatment environment for adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Pediatr Diabetes. 2014 Aug;15(5):394-402. doi: 10.1111/pedi.12103. Epub 2013 Dec 18.
Other Identifiers
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2007.13.003
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id