Hypoglycaemia awareness and behavioural intervention
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Can hypoglycaemia awareness be restored in established type 1 diabetes following a short behavioural intervention: my hypo compass?
IRAS ID
213552
Contact name
James Shaw
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
Individuals with long standing type 1 diabetes are more likely to lose warning symptoms associated with low blood glucose (hypoglycaemia). This reduced hypoglycaemia awareness increases the risk of their blood glucose falling to levels where they can become confused or collapse without warning and require the help of others to administer treatment to enable them to recover (severe hypoglycaemia). The HypoCOMPaSS trial showed that through education and optimised glucose monitoring and insulin delivery we can reduce the frequency of these severe events and improve awareness whilst simultaneously reducing high glucose readings to improve their overall diabetes control. Improvements were noted regardless of glucose monitoring method or insulin treatment. The proposed RCT will determine whether hypoglycaemia awareness can be restored and severe hypoglycaemia prevented simply by employing a brief educational intervention developed for the HypoCOMPaSS study. If so, this will provide a highly effective strategy which could be easily implemented into routine type 1 diabetes care.
REC name
West Midlands - Solihull Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/WM/0520
Date of REC Opinion
28 Dec 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion