The investigators will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to examine how an online training and peer support platform could help the preparation to transition to adult care. Among 14-16 year old youth with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), the investigators aim to assess the effect of an online training and peer support platform (Support-t) integrated in usual care, compared with usual care on Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), adverse outcomes and psychosocial measures during the preparation for transition to adult care. The investigators will conduct a multi-site, parallel group, blinded (outcome assessors, data analysts), superiority RCT of adolescents with T1D (14-16 years of age) followed at one of 4 university teaching hospital-based pediatric diabetes clinics in the province of Quebec.
Adolescents with a clinical diagnosis of T1D
14-16 years of age
Receiving diabetes care at one of 4 university teaching hospital-based pediatric diabetes clinics in Quebec: Montreal Children's Hospital-McGill University Health Centre, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke, Le Copain-Hôpital de Gatineau, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec
Having access to internet
Severe neurocognitive disabilities
Patients with conditions associated with shortened erythrocyte survival, such as hemolytic anemia or other conditions associated with inaccurate HbA1c
Anne-Sophie Brazeau
Lead sponsor
McGill University
Sponsor institution
McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Collaborator
CSSS de Gatineau
Collaborator
Centre de recherche du CHU de Sherbrooke
Collaborator
CHU de Quebec-Universite Laval
Collaborator