Transition to Adult IBD Care: A Pilot Multi-Site, Telehealth Hybrid Intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Transition to adult IBD care continues to be a challenge. Efficacious models of improving transition to adult care in the United States are lacking. We present data from a pilot, prospective, non-randomized, intervention implemented at IBD centers in the Midwest and Southeast United States.

Design and methods

Adolescents and young adults (AYAs; 16-20 years) with IBD and their parents completed a 4- to 5-month transition program (1 in-person group session; 4 individual telehealth sessions). Primary outcomes were feasibility (i.e., recruitment, retention, fidelity) and acceptability (i.e., program satisfaction). Secondary outcomes were changes in transition readiness, self-management skill acquisition, perceived readiness to transfer to adult care, and disease knowle

SUBMITTER: Gray WN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8679140 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature