This RCT intervention provides parental social support (informational, affirmational, and emotional) using parent mentors (experienced in the management of the chronic illness) for mothers and fathers of young children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. The parent mentors provide both home visits and phone call support over the course of the first year after diagnosis. The hypothesis is that newly diagnosed parents who receive the intervention will perceive less parental concern and worry, less negative impact on the family, more perceived confidence and social support compared to those mothers and fathers not receiving the intervention.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
60
Experimental: Minutes of parent mentor-parent participant interactions Control: Minutes of parent contact-parent participant interactions
University of Massachusetts, Worcester
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Maternal Confidence Scale
Maternal confidence in managing child with type 1 diabetes . Higher total scores (10 questions, minimum score of 0, maximum score of 50) mean a better outcome (greater maternal confidence)
Time frame: 12 months
Parent Concern
Parent concern in managing child with type 1 diabetes. Higher total scores (58 questions, minimum score is 58; maximum score is 255) means more worry with managing child's diabetes care.
Time frame: 12 months
Worry
Parent worry in managing child's care. Higher total scores (11 questions, minimum score is 11, maximum score is 44) indicate more parental worry
Time frame: 12 months
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