Diabetes Distress and Quality of Life in University Students With Type 1 DM

NCT ID: NCT07110974

Last Updated: 2025-08-08

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 200 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-10-31
• Study Completion Date: 2026-10-31

Brief Summary

This study aims to encourage and support Sohag University Students with type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM). It will discover students with poor glycemic control, diabetic retinopathy, and renal complications. In addition to focus on those students suffering from Diabetes Distress (DD) and poor Quality of Life (QOL) due to type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM).

Detailed Description

Data will be collected through personal interviews with type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) students using standardized questionnaire. The questionnaire is divided into three sections:

• The first section will gather primarily identification of data such as name, age, gender, father and mother education, order of the student in his/her family, faculty, grade, learning performance, residence; urban or rural, family home or hostile, living alone or with whom, marital status, working, smoking, exercising, history of viral infection as mumps before Diabetes Mellitus (DM), when was first diagnosed with type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) and the presentation of the diagnosis, drugs administered for treatment of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) , presence of chronic diseases other than diabetes, history of hospitalization and cause, presence of diabetic complications, and family history of diabetes, we construct the first section according to circumstances in upper Egypt.
• The second section of the questionnaire will be for the assessment of Diabetes Distress (DD) using the valid DDS17 (Diabetes Distress Scale 17) and aims to evaluate distress across four domains: Emotional burden, Physician- related distress, Regimen-related distress, and Interpersonal distress.
• The third section of the questionnaire will be for the assessment of Quality of Life (QOL) using a pre-designed questionnaire called the "Diabetes Quality of Life Instrument" (DQOLI).

Conditions

Diabetes Type 1; Diabetes Distress

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Sohag University students with type 1 diabetes mellitus

Group Type: OTHER

Diabetes Distress scale 17 and Quality Of Life Instrument

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

questionnaire that assesses the distress resulting from being diabetic patient type 1 and another questionnaire that assesses the quality of life among type 1 diabetic Sohag University students

Interventions

Diabetes Distress scale 17 and Quality Of Life Instrument

questionnaire that assesses the distress resulting from being diabetic patient type 1 and another questionnaire that assesses the quality of life among type 1 diabetic Sohag University students

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. Already diagnosed Type 1 diabetes mellitus

2. receiving insulin

Exclusion Criteria

1. refuses to participate in the study.

2. deaf or mute.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Sohag University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Dina Abdelnaby Ahmed

assistant lecturer in Family Medicine Luxor University

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Central Contacts

Dina Abdel-Naby assistant lecturer in Family Medicine

Role: CONTACT

dina_abdelnaby_post@med.sohag.edu.eg

+201061999108

Other Identifiers

Soh-Med-25-7--3MD

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id