NCT04754919

The Diabetes Transition Study for Young People Aged Between 16-20 Years of Age.

Study Into the Use of a Diabetes Specialist Transition Nurse in the Care of Young People With Type 1 Diabetes Undergoing Transition From the Paediatric to the Adult Services, at the Northampton General Hospital

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Study into the use of a diabetes specialist transition nurse in the care of young people aged 16-20 years, with type 1 diabetes; undergoing transition from the paediatric to the adult diabetes services at the Northampton General Hospital

Detailed description

Does the use of a structured diabetes transition program in the care of young people transitioning from the paediatric to the adult diabetes services at Northampton General Hospital improve the study group mean HbA1C, reduce the number of diabetes related hospital episodes and increase attendance at the adult diabetes clinic following transition to the adult service?

Conditions

• Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Transition intervention group	Support and on-going treatment intervention; monitoring the uptake of routine annual diabetes tests and encouraging to access where default observed General specialist diabetes support and provision of education and referral to other specialist healthcare agencies as individual requires
OTHER	Post transition group	The previous fifty eligible young people who have transitioned to adult service, will be compared with the active comparator group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-12-01
• Primary completion: 2021-11-01
• Completion: 2022-01-01
• First posted: 2021-02-15
• Last updated: 2021-02-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom