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STEP: Social Support To Empower Parents

NCT00480493 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2012-07-30

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Summary

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.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

STEP

Experimental: Minutes of parent mentor-parent participant interactions Control: Minutes of parent contact-parent participant interactions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Massachusetts, Worcester

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Susan Sullivan-Bolyai, DNSc CNS RN · University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Graduate School of Nurisng

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-06-30
Primary Completion
2008-05-31
Completion
2008-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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