NCT05434754

Keeping in Touch (KiT) With Youth as They Transition to Adult Type 1 Diabetes Care

Keeping in Touch (KiT) With Youth as They Transition to Adult Type 1 Diabetes Care: a Randomized Control Trial Testing the Effectiveness of an eHealth Text Message-based Intervention to Improve Diabetes Self-efficacy

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 234 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 17 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators are testing the effectiveness of an eHealth digital tool co-designed with patients and providers to improve diabetes self-efficacy in young adults as they transition to adult type 1 diabetes care.

Detailed description

The intervention is an eHealth digital solution co-designed with patients and providers. The intervention is a text message based algorithm that operates similar to a chatbot and will send SMS messages to participants in the experimental arm, consisting of T1D personalized support, education, resources, and a collection of outcome measures. Participants in the control arm will also be onboarded to the KiT algorithm but will only receive text-messages asking them to complete outcome measures at baseline, 6 and 12 months -- all outcome measures will be URL linkouts to REDCap surveys, housed on the SickKids REDCap servers. An embedded process evaluation of high and low engagers will also be conducted to understand how and why the intervention achieved or failed to achieve the desired effects.

Conditions

• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	eHealth Tool	text messaging algorithm

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-16
• Primary completion: 2025-09-01
• Completion: 2025-09-01
• First posted: 2022-06-28
• Last updated: 2025-04-24

Locations

6 sites across 1 country: Canada