Active clinical trials for "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1"

Aim: To evaluate the effects of information-motivation-behavioral skills model interventions given by nurses during home visits on the knowledge levels, personal and social motivation levels, behavioral skills, and HbA1C levels of adolescents with poor glycemic control. Design: Randomized controlled study. Methods: 50 adolescents with type 1 diabetes were equally divided into study and control groups. Socio-Demographic Form, Diabetes Information Evaluation Form, The Child Attitude Toward Illness Scale, The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and Diabetes Management Self-Efficacy Scale were utilized in data collection. The scales were administered at the beginning of the study and six months later. HbA1c levels of adolescents were evaluated in the third and sixth months. Multiple home visits and phone calls were made to each participant in the intervention group. Interventions to improve the information-motivation-behavioral skills model-based knowledge, personal and social motivation, and behavioral skills were applied during the home visits.

This work is testing a shared medical decision making intervention for adolescents with type 1 diabetes and their parents who are candidates for adding either an insulin pump or continuous glucose monitor to their treatment plan. The first half of the work consisted of the stakeholder driven design, construction and refinement of web-delivered multimedia decision aids for each of these decisions. The randomized controlled trial of that intervention began enroling participants in February 2015. A sample of 166 eligible adolescents who receive care at an operating entity of the Nemours Children's Health System will be enrolled and randomized to either Usual Clinical Practice alone or augmented by the Shared Medical Decision Making intervention. Primary outcomes include measures of engagement with the pertinent technology if it is chosen and measures of decision quality; Secondary outcomes include indices of metabolic control, quality of life and parent-adolescent relationships around diabetes management.

Helping individuals with diabetes to control their blood sugars through self-management is an important goal, and counting carbohydrates (CHO) remains a key part of diabetes education and management. There is very little research examining CHO counting education with adolescents who have type 1 diabetes (T1DM). The purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate a newly developed internet-based teaching module of CHO counting for adolescents, ages 12-17 years, with T1DM and who do not regularly CHO count and require instruction. A secondary aim is to assess feasibility for a future, larger-scale clinical trail. An effective web-based CHO counting tutorial could be used to strengthen current diabetes education programs and may serve as a basis for developing other teaching modules. Advantages of web-based teaching include convenience, increased accessibility, and the ability to review and reinforce teaching concepts through repetition. It may also encourage adolescents to take the initiative for their own diabetes care, beginning with a self-directed, active learning experience.

The purpose of the proposed study, Family Routines - Healthy Families, is to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a parenting/family routine intervention program for parents of young children, ages 2-5, with type 1 diabetes.

Physical activity (PA) can have positive health outcomes for children with type 1 diabetes (T1DM), yet being physically active can have unwanted side effects due to fluctuations in blood glucose (BG) level. Children and parents need support to help understand the relationship between PA and BG level, and how to use PA as a vehicle to better manage the condition. Using PA monitoring could help HCPs raise awareness about PA, discuss PA and facilitate diabetes management. This research will explore the feasibility and acceptability of PA monitoring as a clinical tool to help the management of paediatric T1DM.

The purpose of this 12 week longitudinal study is to test the effect of the dietary supplement, Capros, on blood glycemic index of Type 1 diabetics that have a sensor that provides continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). 20 Type 1 Diabetics will take the Capros supplement for 12 weeks to determine the effect of blood glycemic index. Capros, is a generally safe dietary supplement currently sold over the counter in the United States. Type 1 diabetes also known as juvenile diabetes is commonly diagnosed in children and young adults. Insulin is converted into energy needed for daily living, and with diabetes, insulin is not produced in the body as it should causing many problems. In traditional Indian medicine, the gooseberry Phyllanthus emblica has been used for thousands of years as an effective source of polyphenols and antioxidants. A 12 week longitudinal study to determine the effect of the dietary supplement, Capros, on the blood glycemic index in patients with Type 1 diabetes (T1D).

The objective of the study is to assess the efficacy and safety of home use of a Control-to-Range (CTR) closed-loop (CL) system.

Type 1 Diabetes mellitus (T1D) is characterized by βcell destruction and a long life requirement of exogenous insulin. The bolus basal insulin regimen is a widely accepted therapy concept to treat hyperglycaemia in patients with T1D. This concept requires a very good knowledge of the individuals prandial and basal insulin requirements. However, insulin requirement depends on insulin absorption from the injection site and the individual's insulin sensitivity which relies on a number of effects including body composition, inflammatory processes and environmental factors. Climatic factors such as differences in air temperature could affect both, insulin absorption and insulin sensitivity as suggested by recent reports. For instance, it is reported that hot baths can accelerate the absorption of short acting but not of long acting insulin formulations from the subcutaneous depot. In addition, local warming of the injection site by a novel device (InsuPatch) results as well in an accelerated insulin action profile of short acting insulins. Moreover, Berglund et al. reported seasonal variations in insulin sensitivity in elderly men with increased insulin sensitivity during summer time. Although an effect of temperature on insulin absorption and action can be assumed and was subject to current clinical trials, there is only little knowledge on the effect of humidity and the cumulative effect of humidity and temperature on insulin pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. For subjects with type 2 diabetes it was reported that accommodation to high temperatures and moist air of more than 75% is impaired compared to healthy subjects as determined by skin blood flow, temperature and moisture. Although it can be estimated that changes in blood flow due to hot and moist air affect the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of subcutaneous prandial insulins, to our knowledge no such study in subjects with T1D using the euglycaemic clamp technique was carried out yet. In order to assess the effect of temperature and humidity on insulin action, subjects with type 1 diabetes will be administered a single dose of short acting insulin in an environmental chamber either at 15°C or a warm environment of 40°C with either a low or high humidity (10% vs. 90%). Moreover, an exploratory part of the trial will evaluate the measurement performance of several blood glucose meters under the experimental climatic situations.

The purpose of this study is to determine the key factors influencing insulin sensitivity in type 1 diabetes (T1DM) and maturity onset diabetes of the young, type 2 (MODY2). Our study tests the hypothesis that decreased insulin sensitivity is primarily driven by chronically elevated insulin levels in the blood rather than chronic elevations in blood sugar.

This clinical trial will identify exercise-related and emotional stress related effects on glycemic control in patients with type 1 diabetes using sensor-augmented pump (SAP) therapy.