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Pilot-Testing Strategies to Improve Outcomes for Youth With Type 2 Diabetes by Addressing Health-Related Social Needs

Optimizing Navigation for Wellness And Resources Utilization in Youth With Type 2 Diabetes

Who can join

As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.

Age
13 Years and older
Sex
All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Compensation
Not stated

Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.

What to expect

No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.

What participation involves

  • Procedures mentioned: Questionnaires, Interviews

Only what the study's summary and detailed description on ClinicalTrials.gov say. Time periods may describe the whole study or a part of it — ask the study team what applies to you.

Show the study's own words
  • "Complete surveys and interviews."
Compensation
Not stated
  • Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
  • Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
  • Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
  • Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.

About this study

In plain language

This study tests ways to help teens and young adults with type 2 diabetes and their families get support for social needs that affect health. It looks at whether these steps are practical, accepted by families, and carried out the same way each time. Participants will attend regular diabetes visits, complete surveys and interviews, and be connected to community support.

The goal of this clinical trial is to pilot test different strategies to address health related social needs (HRSN) experienced by adolescent and young adult patients with type 2 diabetes and their families. The main questions it aims to answer are: * How feasible are the strategies? * How acceptable are the strategies? * How reliably and consistently can the strategies be implemented? Participants will: Attend regularly scheduled diabetes clinic visits. Complete surveys and interviews. Be connected to community resources and organizations to help address HRSN.

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Who can join

  • Young people and their caregivers must join together.
  • Young people must be 13 to 22 years old.
  • Young people must have type 2 diabetes.
  • Young people must get diabetes care at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
  • Young people must be able to agree to take part.
  • Caregivers must be at least 18 and be the young person's main caregiver.
  • Caregivers must have a young person who agrees to join the study.
  • Caregivers must be able to give consent, or permission to take part.

Who can't join

  • Cannot complete the study questionnaires in English.

Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.

Official eligibility criteria

Adolescent-Caregiver Dyads will be recruited together. Adolescent Inclusion Criteria: * Age 13 to 22 years old * known diagnosis of type 2 diabetes * followed clinically at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh * able to provide assent/consent Caregiver Inclusion Criteria: * Adult (18 years or older) identifying as a primary caretaker of an adolescent or young adult with type 2 diabetes * Has an adolescent/young adult who agrees to participate in the study * able to provide consent Exclusion Criteria: * Inability to complete study questionnaires in English

Study sites (1)

PA