Effectiveness of the Freestyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System on Diabetes Distress Among Individuals with Type 1 Diabetes: A Prospective Study

Diabetes Therapy : Research, Treatment and Education of Diabetes and Related Disorders
Ayman A Al HayekMohamed A Al Dawish

Abstract

To study and explore the intervention of the flash glucose monitoring system (FGMS) on diabetes-related distress (DRD) in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D). A 12-week prospective study was performed from March 2019 to July 2019 involving 187 children and adolescents (age range 13-19 years; 56.7% female) with T1D who were self-testing their glucose levels using the conventional fingerprick method. At the time of the baseline visit, FGMS sensors were fixed by a trained diabetes educator onto each patient in the study population. A trained interviewer also administered the 28-item T1-Diabetes Distress Scale (T1-DDS) questionnaire to each participant at the baseline visit and again after 12 weeks to determine the T1-DDS score. Comparison of the baseline (fingerprick) data with data collected at 12 weeks after the patients had switched to the FGMS revealed a significant decrease in the subdomains of the T1-DDS as follows: powerlessness (p = 0.0001); management distress (p = 0.0001); hypoglycemia distress (p = 0.0001); negative social perceptions (p = 0.0001); eating (p = 0.0001); physician distress (p = 0.0001); friend/family distress (p = 0.0001); and total T1-DDS score (p = 0.0001). Similarly, analysis of the dat...Continue Reading

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Jun 5, 2020·Diabetes Therapy : Research, Treatment and Education of Diabetes and Related Disorders·Ayman A Al Hayek, Mohamed A Al Dawish
May 13, 2020·Diabetes Therapy : Research, Treatment and Education of Diabetes and Related Disorders·Benedetta Maria BonoraGian Paolo Fadini
Jun 13, 2021·Endocrine Practice : Official Journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists·George GrunbergerJeff Unger

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