Diabetes Counts: Research

PI: Debra K. Bailey RN, PhD candidate COMIRB # 12-0102

ITUNES FOR YOUR TIME

Teenagers with type 1 diabetes T1DM needed for research study**

Purpose of the Study:

To answer these questions and more!!!

1. How do you want your health care provided?

2. What would help you manage your diabetes?

3. What do you need from your health care team?

We are looking for:

-Adolescents with type 1 diabetes

-14-18 years old

-Have had type 1 diabetes for greater than 1 year

-Without psychiatric or major medical illness beyond type 1 diabetes

Participants will:

1. Complete a quality of life questionnaire

2. Participate in three focus groups for 1-2 hours over a 2 month period of time

3. Focus group 1= iTune_TM gift card!

Focus group 2= iTune_TM gift card!

Focus group 3= iTune_TM gift card!

Phone interview after focus groups = iTune_TM gift card!

For more information contact

Debra Bailey RN, FNP, CDE at debra.bailey@ucdenver.edu or

Cell 970-261-4993

COMIRB # 12-0102

What is Type 1 Diabetes?

Diabetes (medically known as diabetes mellitus) is the name given to disorders in which the body has trouble regulating its blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels. There are two major types of diabetes: type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes, also called juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, is a disorder of the body's immune system -- that is, its system for protecting itself from viruses, bacteria or any "foreign" substances. A third form of diabetes called monogenic diabetes, is sometimes mistaken for type 1 diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes occurs when the body's immune system attacks and destroys certian cells in the pancreas, an organ about the size of a hand that is located behind the lower part of the stomach. These cells -- called beta cells -- are contained, along with other types of cells, within small islands of endocrine cells called the pancreatic islets. Beta cells normally produce insulin, a hormone that helps the body move the glucose contained in food into cells throughout the body, which use it for energy. But when the beta cells are destroyed, no insulin can be produced, and the glucose stays in the blood instead, where it can cause serious damage to all the organ systems of the body.

For this reason, people with type 1 diabetes must take insulin in order to stay alive. This means undergoing multiple injections daily, or having insulin delivered through an insulin pump, and testing their blood sugar by pricking their fingers for blood six or more times a day. People with diabetes must also carefully balance their food intake and their exercise to regulate their blood sugar levels, in an attempt to avoid hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) and hypergylcemic (high blood sugar) reactions, whick can be life threatening.

This and more, like the signs of type 1 diabetes, can be found on the JDRF website @ http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=101982

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