Situational Problem Solving in Adolescents With Type 2 Diabetes: Enhancing a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)

Inclusion criteria

Patients with a diagnosis of T2DM will be included if they are:

• Age 12-19 years
• A clinical diagnosis of T2DM (according to the patient and their health provider in the clinic)
• Actively receive diabetes care in the Eskind Diabetes Clinic
• Willingness of patient and a caregiver to access the Internet to complete problem solving activities
• Adolescent address is the same as their primary caregiver participating in the study

Exclusion criteria

Patients will be excluded if they meet any of the following:

• Identify an outside practitioner as the main provider of their diabetes care
• Have a significant psychiatric illness such as severe depression or active psychosis that would impact on the ability to participate in the study
• Life expectancy of <6 months
• Unable to access the Internet from any convenient location
• Blind or deaf

Parent Inclusion criteria:

• Parents must be a primary caregiver of an adolescent with a diagnosis of T2DM between the ages 12-19 seen at the Eskind Clinic
• Willingness of patient and a caregiver to access the Internet to complete problem solving activities.

Parent Exclusion criteria:

Patients will be excluded if they meet any of the following:

• Identify an outside practitioner as the main provider of their child's diabetes care
• Self report of significant psychiatric illness such as severe depression or active psychosis that would impact on the ability to participate in the study
• life expectancy of <6 months
• unable to access the Internet from any convenient location
• blind or deaf.

Joint Inclusion criteria:

Both the primary caregiver (parent) and adolescent must agree to participate in the research.