Hypothesis: Parents who receive Parent Education Thru Simulation-Diabetes (PETS-D) will have significantly higher diabetes knowledge (cognitive visual schemata), better technical and problem-solving competence and confidence, and lower fear and stress/anxiety levels; and provide better diabetes management at 14 weeks compared to those parents receiving standard diabetes education.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
191
After child is newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, parents will receive 3 teaching sessions over 12 weeks, after baseline data collected, at 1 month, and at 3 months, covering hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia and pattern management using teaching vignettes and practice with human patient simulator
After child is newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, parents will receive 3 teaching sessions over 12 weeks, after baseline data collected, at 1 month, and at 3 months, covering hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia and pattern management without the use of a simulator
University of Massachusetts, Worcester
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Change in baseline of Diabetes Knowledge
Diabetes Awareness and Reasoning Test-Parents (DART-P)is a 47-item multiple-choice questionnaire. The subscales include general, insulin, hyper-hypglycemia, and problem-solving. Parent education was a significant predictor of total scores.
Time frame: Baseline and 14 weeks
Change in Baseline of Problem solving
Wysocki's Modified Problem-solving measure18 (PSM) is a 5 item questionnaire that focuses on how to proactively prevent and treat hypoglycemia. Dr. Wysocki sent us one of his vignettes developed from the structured interview measure. Based on the examples of probes that are part of the interview, we constructed a 5-question multiple choice instrument to measure parental problem-solving abilities and knowledge synthesis. We will report the reliability and validity of this measure with data from the proposed study.
Time frame: Baseline and 14 weeks
Change in Baseline of Diabetes management
Diabetes Management Outcomes is a 5 question likert scale based on ADA2 management recommendations.
Time frame: Baseline and 14 weeks
Change in Baseline of Diabetes self efficacy
The Self-Efficacy Diabetes-Pediatrics (SED-P) will be used to measure parent confidence in specific task and skill associated diabetes care, i.e. how confident they feel to perform day-to-day diabetes management.
Time frame: Baseline and 14 weeks
Change in Baseline of Fear of hypoglycemia
The Hypoglycemia Fear Survey-Parents (HFS-P) total score will be used to measure parental fears and avoidance behaviors associated with hypoglycemia in their children.There are 2 subscales that measure parental concerns of their child experiencing an episode of hypoglycemia and behaviors they use to prevent these episodes from occurring
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Time frame: Baseline and 14 weeks
Change in Baseline of Parent anxiety
State-Trait Anxiety (STAI) is a well established 40-item instrument (Likert scale, with 1 being not at all, to 4 being almost always) used to measure situational (state, how one feels at this moment) and stable (trait, how one feels in general) tendencies toward anxiety. Higher scores signify more anxiety
Time frame: Baseline and 14 weeks