Impact of a Diabetes Camp on Glycemic Control Among Children and Adolescents Living With Type 1 Diabetes in Cameroon

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Therapeutic education is central to the management of diabetes, especially in children and adolescents. Camps represent an ideal environment for education. During camps, the campers receive both theoretical and practical information intended to improve their understanding and self-management of diabetes. The metabolic impact of diabetes camp is little known among children and adolescents living with type 1 diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa. The aimed of this study was to assess the changes in glycemic control and insulin doses in a group of children and adolescents living with type 1 diabetes in Cameroon during and after camp.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Yaounde Central Hospital
• Treatments: Insulin; Insulin, Globin Zinc

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Children living with type 1 diabetes and enrolled in the "Changing Diabetes in Children project".

• Regular follow-up at the Yaoundé Central Hospital.

• Aged between 6 and 23 years old.

• Informed consent signed by parents or guardians prior to enrollment in the CDiC project allowing investigators of the project to used data for research.

• Informed consent forms signed by parents or guardians before participation to the 2013 camp in Yaoundé.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Nonattendance of the routinely follow-up visits at the CDiC clinic Yaoundé both at 3 and 12 months after camp.