Randomized Efficacy Trial of Early Preconception Counseling for Diabetic Teens (READY-Girls)

Charron‐Prochownik, Denise; Ferons-Hannan, Margaret; Sereika, Susan M.; Becker, Dorothy J.

doi:10.2337/dc07-1266

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“…Similar to previous findings [12,13], some adolescents that participated in this study had early and unsafe sexual practices and appeared to lack the understanding and knowledge that could prevent unplanned pregnancies. Overall, these study participants reported having only a minimal understanding of how diabetes is related to pregnancy, contraception, and PC.…”

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confidence: 74%

“…This additional information may also Developmentally tailored PC, like the READY-Girls program [7,8], could be beneficial for adolescent females with diabetes to provide accurate information and alleviate misconceptions. The READY-Girls program received high ratings of satisfaction regarding utility, format, usability, ease of understanding, and enjoyableness [12,21]. READY-Girls was adopted by the ADA to be the model preconception counseling program for teens with diabetes.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Several of the successful components of teen pregnancy prevention programs (e.g., abstinence as one method of family planning/pregnancy prevention, delay of sexual initiation, improving communication, and skills building) [9,10] were also integrated into the READY-Girls program that was formatted as a multi-media awareness educational program [11]. The efficacy of READY-Girls has been validated through several randomized control trials (RCT) [12,13,14], and it was shown to be cost-effective [13].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Assessing Reproductive Health Knowledge in Female Adolescents with Diabetes

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Fischl²,

Sereika³

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Objective: Women with diabetes have increased risks of pregnancy-related complications. Knowledge of preventing these risks can be helpful. This paper describes the understanding and knowledge of diabetes and reproductive health of adolescent females with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Research Design and Methods:For this secondary analysis, a descriptive mixed-method design was employed using baseline data from adolescents enrolled in a preconception counseling (PC) intervention study (READY-Girls program) targeting adolescent women with diabetes to enhance reproductive health awareness, knowledge, beliefs, decision-making skills, and behaviors. Participants (aged 13-20 yrs) were recruited from 2 university-based diabetes clinics. Content analysis was used to identify recurring themes on 3 open-ended computer-based questions regarding the understanding of diabetes and pregnancy, contraception, and PC; kappa coefficients were used to assess inter-coder agreement. Subscale scores from multiple-choice vignettes were computed in terms of 100% correctness (<70% indicated low levels) for knowledge of diabetes and pregnancy, contraception, and PC. Qualitative and quantitative results were compared.Results: Participants (n=101) were on average 15.8 yrs, 21% were sexually active with a mean age at sexual debut of 15.3yrs. Overarching themes from qualitative data were that participants knew "little or nothing" and had misconceptions regarding diabetes and pregnancy, contraception, and PC. Inter-coder agreement for content analysis was high. Knowledge scores were low (diabetes and pregnancy, 64.5%; diabetes and contraception, 79.8%; PC, 67.5%).Conclusion: Risky behavior and low knowledge scores confirmed their perceived lack of understanding from the open-ended questions regarding diabetes and pregnancy and PC. Teens had greater knowledge of contraception. Diabetes education should include PC and reproductive health for teens with diabetes.

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“…While similar findings of effectiveness have been reported for a preconception counselling resource aimed at adolescents in the US [26], the longer term impact on pregnancy planning in that cohort remains unknown as no pregnancies have yet been reported.…”

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Effect of implementation of a preconception counselling resource for women with diabetes: A population based study

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Hamill

Alderdice

et al. 2017

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Publisher rights © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/ which permits distribution and reproduction for non-commercial purposes, provided the author and source are cited. General rightsCopyright for the publications made accessible via the Queen's University Belfast Research Portal is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Highlights• Pregnancy planning and pre-pregnancy care uptake is poor among women with diabetes• Poor preconception counselling is linked to poor pre-pregnancy care uptake• Implementation of a preconception counselling resource improved pregnancy planning• Women who engaged with the resource were better prepared for pregnancy• Women with type 2 diabetes, typically cared for in primary care, are hard to reach 4

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“…READY-Girls is a validated developmentally appropriate evidence-based educational PC intervention for adolescent girls starting at puberty [8][9][10]. Three randomized controlled trials (RCT) at multiple diabetes clinic sites using the READY-Girls intervention have been conducted (1999,2002, and 2005) on teens 13-20 years of age and results have been previously reported [11][12][13]. Along-term follow-up survey study was later conducted online with past READY-Girls participants regarding PC and pregnancy outcomes.…”

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Agreement between Self-Reports and Medical Records in the Reporting of Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Type 1 Diabetes

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Becker³

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Background: Since previous studies have shown that self-reports may not be as accurate as medical record data, this secondary analysis investigated the agreement between maternal self-report (SR) and medical record (MR) documentation of pregnancy outcomes (e.g., length of hospitalization, neonatal birth weight, complications) in women with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Methods: An online SR follow-up study to evaluate long-term reproductive-health outcomes was conducted with women who previously participated in randomized controlled trials (RCT) to test a preconception counseling (PC) intervention (READY-Girls) as adolescents and included a matched comparison group of women with T1D who did not receive the PC intervention as teens. Data were collected from SR surveys and MR review. Agreement between SR and MR entries was assessed using kappa coefficients and intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC). Results: Of the 101 women with T1D (51 RCT, 50 matched controls) who were recruited for long-term follow-up (98.0% Caucasian, age range 18-34 years, 82.0% had some college, T1D duration range 0-30 years), 18 (17.8%) reported ever being pregnant and for 8 (47.1%) of these women access to MR was obtained for 14 pregnancies. These women had a mean±SD age of 28.57±1.91 years at entry and duration of T1D of 19.75±5.45 years. Perfect agreement (kappa=1.0) was observed between SR and MR for type of delivery and neonatal birth weight >9 pounds. Excellent agreement was observed for neonatal weight (ICC=.951). Lower levels of agreement were found between SR and MR for duration of post-delivery hospitalization [maternal (ICC=.269); neonatal (ICC=.657)] and maternal and neonatal complications (kappa=.639 and kappa=.025, respectively). Conclusion: There was excellent agreement for several pregnancy outcomes in these women with T1D. Self-report of pregnancy outcomes should be verified by medical record data, especially time-related variables which could be more difficult to recall, suggesting that method of reporting for these types of variables may not be interchangeable.

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Randomized Efficacy Trial of Early Preconception Counseling for Diabetic Teens (READY-Girls)

Cited by 71 publications

References 25 publications

Assessing Reproductive Health Knowledge in Female Adolescents with Diabetes

Assessing Reproductive Health Knowledge in Female Adolescents with Diabetes

Effect of implementation of a preconception counselling resource for women with diabetes: A population based study

Agreement between Self-Reports and Medical Records in the Reporting of Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Type 1 Diabetes

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