NCT05434754Completed
Keeping in Touch (KiT) With Youth as They Transition to Adult Type 1 Diabetes Care
Keeping in Touch (KiT) With Youth as They Transition to Adult Type 1 Diabetes Care: a Randomized Control Trial Testing the Effectiveness of an eHealth Text Message-based Intervention to Improve Diabetes Self-efficacy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 29 Apr 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The investigators are testing the effectiveness of an eHealth digital tool co-designed with patients and providers to improve diabetes self-efficacy in young adults as they transition to adult type 1 diabetes care.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 234 (actual)
- First submitted
- 29 May 2022
- Start date
- 16 Jan 2022
- Primary completion date
- 23 Aug 2025
- Lead sponsor
- The Hospital for Sick Children
- Diseases
- Type 1 diabetes
- NCT number
- NCT05434754
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 234
- From 16 Jan 2022 to the primary completion date, 23 Aug 2025
- 6 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.
Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Planning to move out of either province in the next 6-12 months and after moving, will not be receiving diabetes care in either province and/or will not have a valid and working mobile number
Other illness
- Unable to carry out their diabetes care independently due to an intellectual or neurocognitive disability; discerned from medical chart during pre-screening
- Currently enrolled in another diabetes intervention trial that will continue beyond the final pediatric diabetes visit
Other
- Non-resident of Ontario or Quebec
- Currently enrolled in any other clinical research trial with an SMS-based intervention
Who the study is looking for
- Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, ascertained from patient's medical chart
- Receiving out-patient care for T1D at a pediatric diabetes center participating in this study
- Is within 6 months of either planned transfer or 18th birthday so research coordinator can approach patient and inform them about the study, and then can be re-approached for consenting and enrollment only within 3-4 months of either: planned transfer to adult diabetes care OR 18th birthday
- Proficient in written and spoken English or French
- Possession of their own personal mobile device that can support SMS with sufficient capacity to send and receive SMS/texts
- Valid and working mobile phone number
- Valid email address
- Willing to engage with intervention if randomized to intervention arm
- Willing to complete study outcome measures (questionnaires) at all study time-points regardless of which arm they are randomized to: baseline, 6 months, and 12 months
- Willing to provide informed consent
Age in the registry: 17 years to 18 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (6)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Valley Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Markham | Canada | Unknown status |
| Trillium Health Partners Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mississauga | Canada | Unknown status |
| Saint Justine Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Montreal | Canada | Unknown status |
| McGill University Health Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Montreal | Canada | Unknown status |
| Children'S Hospital Of Eastern Ontario Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ottawa | Canada | Unknown status |
| The Hospital for Sick Children Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Unknown status |
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