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ISRCTN
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ISRCTN92107365
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ClinicalTrials.gov identifier
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Public title
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Use of a web 2.0 portal to improve education and communication in young diabetes patients with families
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Scientific title
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Use of a web 2.0 portal to improve education and communication in young diabetes patients with families: a randomised controlled trial
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Acronym
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N/A
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Serial number at source
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N/A
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Study hypothesis
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A Web 2.0 portal, with diabetes-related information and the possibility to communicate with diabetes peers as well as with health care professionals, would
1. Be of complementary value in everyday life with diabetes, especially by newly diagnosed patients and patients in periods with instable metabolic control
2. Be perceived as helpful in self treatment; and
3. Contribute to improved metabolic control
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Lay summary
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Lay summary under review 3
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Ethics approval
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The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Health Science at Linköping University, Sweden on 04/11/2003
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Study design
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Randomised controlled study
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Countries of recruitment
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Sweden
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Disease/condition/study domain
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Type 1 Diabetes
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Participants - inclusion criteria
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All the clinically diagnosed type 1 diabetes children registered in the Swedish paediatric diabetes quality registry, SWEDIABKIDS, belonging to the geographic population of the two paediatric clinics in Linköping and Jönköping, were eligible and invited to the study
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Participants - exclusion criteria
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1. No consent
2. Transferred to other clinic
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Anticipated start date
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11/04/2006
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Anticipated end date
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25/09/2008
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Status of trial
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Completed |
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Patient information material
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Not available in web format, please use the contact details below to request a patient information sheet
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Target number of participants
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474
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Interventions
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The patients and their families were randomised (stratified for clinic) to either the intervention group or the control group.
At baseline April 2006, all subjects in the intervention group were offered a personal password to the portal for the first year of the study. After study year one, all subjects in the previous control group were also offered passwords to the portal. For children 13 years of age and older, both parents and adolescents received passwords while for younger children only parents received passwords. Basic information about the concept was given by posted letters, and informed consent to study participation was required before the first visit.
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Primary outcome measure(s)
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1. HbA1c
2. Number of severe hypoglycaemia incidents
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Secondary outcome measure(s)
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1. Health-Related Quality Of Life (HRQOL)
2. Empowerment and perception of quality of care regarding information
3. Hypoglycaemia (self-reported) and
4. Numbers of self-controls of blood glucose (self-reported)
5. User activity by site visits and page visits logged per user
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Sources of funding
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1. The Medical Research Council of Southeast Sweden (FORSS) (Sweden)
2. ALF Grants, County Council of Östergötland (Sweden)
3. The Swedish Child Diabetes Foundation (Barndiabetesfonden) (Sweden)
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Trial website
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Publications
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Contact name
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Dr
Sam
Nordfeldt
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Address
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Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
Linköping University
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City/town
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Linköping
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Zip/Postcode
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581 85
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Country
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Sweden
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Email
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sam.nordfeldt@liu.se
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Sponsor
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County Council of Östergötland (Landstinget i Ostergotland) (Sweden)
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Address
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Landstinget i Ostergotland
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City/town
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Linkoping
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Zip/Postcode
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581 91
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Country
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Sweden
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Date applied
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25/11/2011
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Last edited
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10/02/2012
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Date ISRCTN assigned
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10/02/2012
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