Impact of family-centered tailoring of pediatric diabetes self-management resources.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The American Diabetes Association recommends a family-centered approach that addresses each family's specific type 1 diabetes self-management barriers.

Objective

To assess an intervention that tailored delivery of self-management resources to families' specific self-management barriers.

Subjects

At two sites, 214 children 8-16 years old with type 1 diabetes and their parent(s) were randomized to receive tailored self-management resources (intervention, n = 106) or usual care (n = 108).

Methods

Our intervention (1) identified families' self-management barriers with a validated survey, (2) tailored self-management resources to identified barriers, and (3) delivered the resources as four group sessions coordinated with diabetes visits. Mixed effects mod

SUBMITTER: Fiallo-Scharer R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6827338 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature