Children's Hospital Academic Medical Organization (CHAMO) MyChart Study

NCT ID: NCT05979077

Last Updated: 2025-04-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 200 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-04-03
• Study Completion Date: 2025-12-31

Brief Summary

Evolving technology and clinical innovation have led to dramatic changes in the management of type 1 diabetes (T1D). These changes have led to a need to collect a growing number of details from families during their visits. As a result, much of the physician-patient visit is spent transferring information instead of focusing on diabetes care, contributing to increased time pressures in clinic and unmet needs for patients.

In response to this reality, the investigators have developed a tool that allows families to input their diabetes-related information into their physicians' electronic health record (EHR) documentation tool before their clinic visit, using a questionnaire administered via CHEO's secure patient portal (MyChart®). The investigators will evaluate the impact of an integrated electronic patient questionnaire, on quality of care (patient-reported), diabetes control and clinic efficiency. The investigators hope that our study will determine whether having families input clinical data prior to a visit is an effective strategy to improve the quality of diabetes care. The investigators believe that the findings will be of interest to all those studying the value of incorporating patient-entered data both within diabetes care and beyond.

Conditions

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

MyChart Questionnaire (Intervention Group)

Participants within the intervention group will complete the patient-facing EHR-enabled MyChart® questionnaire.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

MyChart Questionnaire

Intervention Type: OTHER

Prior to clinic visits, families completing the MyChart Questionnaire will enter details about their current management and visit goals, automatically populating their electronic health record for subsequent review/revision by the health care team before and during the visit, reallocating clinic time previously used for data acquisition to individual patient priorities

Standard Clinical Care (Control Group)

Participants within the control group will undergo standard clinical care with no study intervention.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

MyChart Questionnaire

Prior to clinic visits, families completing the MyChart Questionnaire will enter details about their current management and visit goals, automatically populating their electronic health record for subsequent review/revision by the health care team before and during the visit, reallocating clinic time previously used for data acquisition to individual patient priorities

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Diagnosis of T1D
• Age <11 years at enrollment

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients ≥ 11 years of age at enrollment
• Patients who are not fluent enough in English to complete all study related procedures
• Patients unable or unwilling to provide consent and/or assent
• Patients followed in Eating Disorder Clinic or Child and Youth Protection Clinic (there are MyChart activation restrictions for individuals followed in these clinics)

• Minimum Eligible Age: 0 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 131 Months
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Ellen Goldbloom

Pedatric Endocrinologist

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario - Research Institute

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Countries

Canada

Provided Documents

Document Type: Informed Consent Form

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Other Identifiers

22/99X

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id