NCT02632383

Young With Diabetes Type 1 - Test of an mHealth App

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 140 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Nordsjaellands Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 22 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A multicenter randomized controlled trial testing the app "Young with Diabetes"

Detailed description

Young people with diabetes type 1, their parents and health care providers have participated in developing the mHealth app "Young with Diabetes". The aim of the app is to support young people to self-manage their diabetes type 1. A test group of 70 young people with diabetes type 1 test the app for 12 months as a supplement to standard care and the control group receives standard care only. At baseline and after 2, 7 and 12 months HbA1c, problem areas in diabetes, perceived competences in diabetes and health care climate are measured.

Conditions

• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Young with Diabetes - app	The mHealth app "Young with Diabetes" containes 8 main functions: 1. Contact your health care provider (ask questions, set the agenda for the next clinical visit) 2. My Department (hotline numbers, videos about the new adult department, pictures of my diabetes team) 3. Chatroom 4. Counting Carbohydrates (information and tips about carbs, introduction to apps to count carbs, quiz) 5. Knowledge-section (Text, links, tips and videos (animations and videoselfies) about What is diabetes?, Alcohol etc.) 6. Tips packages (Receive a tip about alcohol, drivers license etc.) 7. To parents (Text, links, tips and videoselfies to parents about what it is like to be young with diabetes and what they can do to support) 8. Reminder

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-12-01
• Primary completion: 2017-03-28
• Completion: 2017-03-28
• First posted: 2015-12-16
• Last updated: 2017-04-10

Locations

6 sites across 1 country: Denmark