Psychosocial Factors Affecting Glycemic Control in Children and Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Psychosocial and Socioeconomic Factors Affecting Glycemic Control in Children and Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04186195

Enrollment

191

Registered

2019-12-04

Start date

2020-11-03

Completion date

2021-12-30

Last updated

2022-05-17

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Conditions

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1

Keywords

Glycemic control, Children, Psychosocial and socioeconomic factors

Brief summary

The aim of the study is to research psychosocial and socioeconomic factors among families that might affect glycemic control in children and adolescent with type 1 diabetes mellitus. These factors might be: living conditions, structure of the family, socioeconomic status, divorces and parent's own glycemic control status (if parent's type 1 diabetes mellitus is present in the family).

Detailed description

This study is going to clarify if there are some socioeconomical or psychosocial factors that might influence child's type 1 diabetes mellitus glycemic control. Study population consists of 300-350 diabetic children aged 1-16 years who have diabetic controls at Tampere University Hospital and their families. Required information is going to be collected with 2 questionnaires, wich families are kindly asked to fill in.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

1 Years to 16 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Type 1 diabetic children aged 1-16 years and their parents. Patient's and parents' willingness to participate

Exclusion criteria

Type 1 diabetes duration under 1 year. Difficulties to understand written finnish. \-

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Children's type 1 diabetes glycemic control	Through study completion, an average 5 years	Socioeconomic and psychosocial factors affecting in type 1 diabetes glycemic status in children

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Parents' divorce rate	Through study completion, an average 5 years	Frequency of parent's divorces in a family with a child with type 1 diabetes
Parent's type 1 diabetes glycemic status	Through study completion, an average 5 years	Possible parent's own type 1 diabetes glycemic status correlation with a child's type 1 diabetes glycemic control

Countries

Finland

Outcome results