NCT07110974

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

Assessment of Diabetes Distress and Quality of Life in Sohag University Students With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Sohag University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	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

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-10-01
• Primary completion: 2026-05-01
• Completion: 2026-10-01
• First posted: 2025-08-08
• Last updated: 2025-08-08