Group Clinic Visits for Teens With Type 2 Diabetes
Tests group clinic visits as a care approach for teenagers with type 2 diabetes.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- Where
- Los Angeles and San Francisco, United StatesSee the 2 sites
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Implementation of Team Clinic for Type 2 Diabetes (TCT2)
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 160 people, planned
- Started
- 14 Aug 2025
- Expected to end
- 30 Jun 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Standard of Care
- Shared Medical Appointments
- Record updated
- 29 October 2025
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for English-speaking young people aged 12 to 18 with type 2 diabetes who take diabetes medicine. Their caregivers also take part.
- Age
- 12 to 18 years old (caregivers: parents of a child aged 12 to under 18)
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- Type 2 diabetes, treated at CHLA or UCSF.
- Earlier treatment
- Young people must be prescribed medication for type 2 diabetes.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Cannot take part in group activities and discussions, for example non-verbal
- Pregnancy
- Young person or legal guardian unwilling or unable to give written consent or assent
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Receives care for type 2 diabetes at either CHLA or UCSF
- English speaking youth
- Youth prescribed medication for type 2 diabetes
- English or Spanish speaking caregivers
- Age 12 to 18 years old at the time of enrollment
- Willingness to attend clinic visits and participate in group session (if randomized to Team Clinic), complete surveys
- Has a child between the ages of 12 and up to 18 at the time of enrollment who receives care for T2D in the endocrinology clinic at CHLA. The child must provide consent/assent to participate as a youth participant
- Speaks English of Spanish. Over 95% of our T2D population speaks one of those two languages. Our facilitator will be bilingual in English and Spanish. It is not feasible for the facilitator to also speak another language. Having a language interpreter for discussion groups will affect the dynamics and flow of the group session
- Willingness to participate in group session (if their child is randomized to Team Clinic) and complete surveys
Who cannot take part
- Participants who are non-verbal or unable to participate in group activities and discussions
- Pregnancy
- Inability or unwillingness of individual or legal guardian/representative to give written informed assent/consent; Caregiver/Parents Participants
- -Inability or unwillingness of individual to give written informed consent
Other criteria
- Patient/AYA Participants
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 12 and 18 years old?
Where in United States
- Children's Hospital Los AngelesLos Angeles, United StatesContact: Lily Chao, MD, MS (principal investigator)Taking people
- University of California San FranciscoSan Francisco, United StatesContact: Fatima AguilarNot yet recruiting
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if shared medical appointment is an acceptable way to deliver care to youth with type 2 diabetes.
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The main question[s] it aims to answer are:
* Is shared medical appointments an acceptable care delivery model for this population? * Does shared medical appointment improve psychosocial outcomes for this population?
Participants will attend quarterly clinic appointments and group activities and take surveys. Researchers will compare this intervention to standard of care.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Standard CarePlacebo, for comparison
Multidisciplinary team based care every 3 months.
Treatment: Standard of Care
- Shared Medical AppointmentExisting treatment, for comparison
Participants will attend 4 quarterly appointments. In addition to time with their clinician, they will also have group activities that address relevant topics.
Treatment: Shared Medical Appointments
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Implementation of Team Clinic for Type 2 Diabetes (TCT2): A Randomized Standard Care-controlled Two-site 80-subject Clinical Trial of Shared Medical Appointment Model for Adolescents With Type 2 Diabetes
- Plain-language title
- Group Clinic Visits for Teens With Type 2 DiabetesGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT06923046, who can take part
- Record updated
- 29 October 2025