NCT00480493

STEP: Social Support To Empower Parents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Worcester · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This RCT intervention provides parental social support (informational, affirmational, and emotional) using parent mentors (experienced in the management of the chronic illness) for mothers and fathers of young children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. The parent mentors provide both home visits and phone call support over the course of the first year after diagnosis. The hypothesis is that newly diagnosed parents who receive the intervention will perceive less parental concern and worry, less negative impact on the family, more perceived confidence and social support compared to those mothers and fathers not receiving the intervention.

Conditions

• Type 1 Diabetes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	STEP	Experimental: Minutes of parent mentor-parent participant interactions Control: Minutes of parent contact-parent participant interactions

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-06-01
• Primary completion: 2008-05-01
• Completion: 2008-05-01
• First posted: 2007-05-31
• Last updated: 2012-07-30
• Results posted: 2012-07-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States