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YSN researchers awarded $3.5 million grant to expand coping skills training to the internet for children with diabetes
New Haven, CT — January 24, 2008
New Haven, CT - Two researchers at Yale University School of Nursing (YSN) were recently awarded $3,417,079 from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NIH) to study the effects of internet-based coping skills training for children with type 1 diabetes compared to an internet-based education program.
Margaret Grey, DrPH, RN, FAAN, Dean and Annie Goodrich Professor, and Robin Whittemore, PhD, APRN, Associate Professor, serve as the principal investigators on this groundbreaking study to improve diabetes management, metabolic control, and quality of life in adolescents with diabetes.
"The better we can keep their disease under control the more likely these children will have a longer life and a healthier adulthood," commented Dean Grey.
Rapid advancements in technology and access to the internet have made it a viable tool for the delivery of coping skills training, a group-based intervention developed at Yale by Dean Grey and extensively tested. The internet represents a method of training that is potentially appealing, effective, and time-efficient for adolescents living with type 1 diabetes. In addition, this study will allow health care practitioners to move beyond in-person sessions with adolescents to a virtual community in order to deliver this training to a broad audience in a cost-effective method.
"Teens with type 1 diabetes are often the only student in their school with diabetes and they feel different at a time when they want to be accepted by friends," stated Professor Whittemore. "The goal of this program is to help teens learn how to manage their diabetes within the context of challenging social situations and to provide a forum for teens with type 1 diabetes to learn from each other."
Using eye-catching animations and graphics, the site invites adolescent users in a fun, creative, and inviting way to learn coping skills and join the online community of others with type 1 diabetes.
"By using Internet-based coping skills training, adolescents are much more likely to get online on their own time than go to a clinic for a meeting," Dean Grey continued. "We have found that 40 - 50% of kids could not meet with a group due to their activities. Now we are able to connect with them on their own time, and we now reach 90% of the eligible children."
"We want to see teens healthy, both physically and emotionally," added Professor Whittemore.
