Recruiting

Peer Support

Sponsor:

Laval University

Code:

NCT07317986

Conditions

Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Peer support meetings

Study Details

Brief summary:

When you live with type 1 diabetes (T1D), it is easy to feel alone. Managing your own T1D or your child's T1D takes constant effort that is invisible to most people. Often, the only people who really understand what you are going through are other people in similar situations, but it's hard to find those people, especially when there are other aspects of your life that might be different from others with T1D. For example, you might have a very young child with T1D, you might be racialized and deal with racism in health care on top of T1D, you might be going through menopause with T1D, you might be aging out of provincial or parental device coverage, you might speak a different language from most people around you with T1D, or any one of many other things that make your situation unique. This project aims to create regular, small online meetings via Zoom or similar technologies to bring together people across Canada who are managing T1D (their own and/or their child's) who have other things in common. We will create these small groups that will meet monthly as well as larger monthly webinars covering topics of interest. We will track how people like the groups, how they feel, what they like and don't like, and adjust the program accordingly. This project is led by researchers and others who themselves live with T1D. We believe that this kind of peer support can be extremely helpful to people with T1D and it will provide needed mental health support.

Conditions

Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)

Study ID

NCT07317986

Start date

Jul 7, 2025

Status verified date

Sep, 2025

Completion date

Jul, 2029

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jul, 2028

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria: Participants in CommuniT1D must be people living with T1D or another rare, insulin-requiring form of diabetes, namely, Latent autoimmune diabetes of adults (LADA), Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Youth (MODY), or type 3c, which occurs due to an injury to or removal of the pancreas. Loved ones such as a parent, child, spouse, caregiver, or friend of an individual with T1D or other rarer forms of diabetes will also be eligible to participate in CommuniT1D. Participants must be 18 years and older, reside in Canada, and be able to read the consent form in English or French.

Exclusion Criteria: Individuals with type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, or gestational diabetes and no connection to T1D, LADA, MODY, type 3c, or other rare, insulin-requiring forms of diabetes will not be included in CommuniT1D. Individuals under 18 years old will also be ineligible to participate. As the program grows, we hope to expand to also include adolescents and children, who may need parental consent for them to join, depending on their Canadian province or territory of residence. Should we be able to pursue this option, we will work with institutional research ethics boards to ensure that we welcome participation by youth while also ensuring their safety within CommuniT1D. In such a case, the age restrictions in our eligibility criteria would change.

Study Design

Enrollment

300 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: CommuniT1D arm

People in the intervention will be offered a peer support intervention consisting of monthly Zoom meetings with peers in similar situations.

Interventions

Peer support meetings

Online videoconference meetings held approximately monthly.

Primary outcome measure

  • Diabetes Distress [ Time Frame: Every 6 months from enrollment to the end of intervention (estimated 2 years) ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Holly Witteman, PhD

418-656-2131holly.witteman@fmed.ulaval.ca

Locations

Université Laval

Recruiting

Québec, Quebec, Canada, G1V 0A6

Contacts

Holly Witteman, PhD

418-656-2131holly.witteman@fmed.ulaval.ca

More Information

Sponsor

Laval University

Last update posted

Jan 5, 2026

Last verified

Sep, 2025

Keywords

  • peer support

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Laval University on 2026-01-05.