Design and baseline data from a PCORI-funded randomized controlled trial of family-centered tailoring of diabetes self-management resources.

ABSTRACT: This article describes the methodology, recruitment, participant characteristics, and sustained, intensive stakeholder engagement for Project ACE (Achieving control, Connecting resources, Empowering families). Project ACE is a randomized controlled trial of children and youth ages 8-16 with type 1 diabetes evaluating the impact of tailored self-management resources on hemoglobin A1c (A1c) and quality of life (QOL). Despite strong evidence that controlling A1c reduces long-term complications, <25% of US youth with type 1 diabetes meet A1c targets. Many interventions are efficacious in improving A1c and QOL for these youth, whose families often struggle with the substantial demands of the treatment regimen. However, most such interventions are ineffective in the real world due to lack of upt

SUBMITTER: Fiallo-Scharer R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5535788 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature