Insul-In This Together Program for Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes and Their Parents

Insul-In This Together Program: Optimizing Family-based Interventions for Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes and Their Parents

The "Insul-In This Together" intervention is designed for teens with Type 1 Diabetes and their parents. This study seeks to evaluate an evidence-based family intervention for teens with type 1 diabetes and their parents to offset the psychosocial and diabetes self-management risks. This information will provide a more in-depth understanding of family-based program efficacy for teens with adolescents and provide more judicious and streamlined intervention options to be offered in diabetes clinics in the future.

This study will collect survey and biomedical data to assess this program in a randomized controlled trial with 165 families (including an adolescent and parent/caregiver) will be enrolled, complete surveys, provide biomedical data via continuous glucose monitors and receive a 6-week psychosocial intervention. The results of this study will inform future intervention redesign to provide more judicious interventions to be disseminated across diabetes care.This study will evaluate the relative efficacy of each of the individual intervention components and also identify the mechanisms of actions (mediators) that are most impacted by these types of interventions as well as most linked to long-term outcomes for adolescents.

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Teen subject has a type 1 diabetes (T1D) diagnosis according to ADA criteria for at least 6 months
2. Teen subject is age 12-19 years at time of screening (no age limit for parent participants)
3. Participation of at least one cohabitating parent/caregiver.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Subject lacks access to a smartphone or Wi-Fi via computer
2. Subject has restricted or no English proficiency
3. Subject has a pervasive developmental, cognitive, or psychiatric limitations that compromise participation in study