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DiabetesT1DTechCHWNCT05211869

T1DTechCHW: Enhancing the Community Health Worker Model to Promote Diabetes Technology Use in Young Adults From Underrepresented Minority Groups

A study testing T1D-CATCH in people with Diabetes and Type 1 Diabetes, run by Albert Einstein College of Medicine at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

The objective of this study is to test the early effects and implementation of an enhanced community health worker (CHW) model (T1D-CATCH) that encourages and supports diabetes technology use in young adults from underrepresented minority groups (YA-URMs) with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 35 years
Conditions the study is for
Diabetes, Type 1 Diabetes, Young Adult
What is being tested?
T1D-CATCH
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
119 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
7 Nov 2022to 8 Dec 2025
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 35 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult

Who may be able to join

  • T1D duration ≥6 months
  • 18-35 years old
  • Self-identified URM status: non-Hispanic Black or Hispanic
  • English- or Spanish-speaking
  • Not currently on a connected diabetes technology system (includes never offered, prescribed but not started within 3 months of receiving the device, discontinued, or previously refused technology)

Who cannot join

  • Developmental or sensory disability interfering with study participation
  • Current pregnancy
  • Participation in another behavioral or diabetes technology intervention study in the past 6 months.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site

  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine

    The Bronx, New York, 10461

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About this study

Official title: T1DTechCHW: Enhancing the Community Health Worker (CHW) Model to Promote Diabetes Technology Use in Young Adults From Underrepresented Minority Groups (YA-URMs) With Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)

The objective of this study is to test the early effects and implementation of an enhanced community health worker (CHW) model (T1D-CATCH) that encourages and supports diabetes technology use in young adults from underrepresented minority groups (YA-URMs) with type 1 diabetes (T1D). The investigators will conduct a 9-month randomized controlled trial in which YA-URMs will be randomized to T1D-CATCH or usual care. The investigators will recruit from adult and pediatric endocrinology and primary care practices in a large safety-net health system in the Bronx, New York. Our specific aims are to 1) evaluate T1D-CATCH effects on technology initiation and continued use over 6 months and 2) evaluate T1D-CATCH implementation using Proctor's Taxonomy of Implementation Outcomes: feasibility, adoption, fidelity, and cost.

Read the detailed description

The study will involve a 9-month randomized control trial of usual care versus T1D-CATCH, an intervention that enhances core community health worker (CHW) service roles to support increased use of T1D technology in young adults (underrepresented minorities) (YA-URM's). Participants will be recruited from primary and specialty care practices at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, which is a large safety-net hospital system in one of the poorest counties in the U.S. Two young adult-aged CHWs from the Montefiore CHW program will be trained extensively per our Supporting Emerging Adults with Diabetes (SEAD) program manuals. For YA-URMs, CHWs will conduct hands-on diabetes technology education, goal-setting, peer support, and social service linkage. CHWs will also help shift insurance approval tasks away from busy providers and better align patient-provider priorities through close communication between the YA-URM and provider. Group sessions will be optional and will follow the YA-centric education curriculum developed in Dr. Agarwal's Supporting Emerging Adults with Diabetes (SEAD) program.

Being tested
T1D-CATCH
Medical subject headings
Diabetes Mellitus, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • T1D-CATCHBehavioural

    As defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a CHW is "a frontline public health worker who is a trusted member of a community or who has a thorough understanding of the community being served, and leverages this unique position to link health systems, social services, and communities". CHWs engender trust with patients by having direct community and lived experience, offering specific support and empathy that may be difficult for other diabetes care professionals to provide. In addition, CHWs have firsthand understanding of cultural barriers to traditional western healthcare and can promote patient-centered culturally-relevant care. They enhance team-based care by helping providers with extra outreach, social needs management, time-consuming tasks, and aligning patient-provider priorities.

    CHWs in this project will provide social needs assessment and management, introduction to diabetes technologies, and support for onboarding to technology.

Study groups in NCT05211869
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
T1D-CATCHExperimentalThe CHW intervention will consist of both individual and optional group sessions with YA-URMs with T1D. In individual sessions, CHWs will provide T1D technology education, peer support, and social needs management. Over the 9-month study period, session frequency will involve weekly individual sessions based on participant technology milestones and an optional monthly CHW-led peer group support session. CHW individual and group sessions will be held via videoconferencing or in person, per participant preference and institutional COVID-19 rules.
Receives: Behavioral: T1D-CATCH
Usual Care Control ConditionNo interventionControl arm participants will receive usual primary or endocrine care at Montefiore. Usual care consists of a physician or nurse practitioner visit with review of blood sugars and treatment decisions based on provider experience. Physicians in endocrinology practices are nested within a diabetes center with access to diabetes nurse practitioners/educators, dieticians, a psychologist, and nurses. In all practices, patients are recommended to see their physician or nurse practitioner every 3 months and attend individual or group sessions.

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Technology Initiation

    Technology use will be tracked using EMR prescriptions, self-reporting, CHW records, and device platforms and will be measured and reported as a binary variable (yes/no). Technology will include any combination of continuous glucose monitor (CGM), pump, or CGM and pump. Technology initiation will be defined as at least 1 week of first use in the 6-month period. Variables will be described using summary statistics with counts/percentages.

    Measured: 6 months following intervention

Secondary outcomes (3)

  1. Technology Initiation

    Technology use will be tracked using EMR prescriptions, self-reporting, CHW records, and device platforms and will be measured and reported as a binary variable (yes/no). Technology will include any combination of continuous glucose monitor (CGM), pump, or CGM and pump. Technology use will be defined as at least 1 week of first use in the 3-month period. Variables will be described using summary statistics with counts/percentages.

    Measured: 3 months following intervention

  2. Continued Technology Use - Percent Use

    Continued technology use by study end will be determined from device platform metrics detailing days/percent time used, in addition to self-report. Per standard diabetes technology clinical trial guidelines, CGM use is defined as pump use >90% time. The percentage of time used (% used) will be summarized by study arm using basic descriptive statistics. A target of at least 90% CGM wear-time is associated with the best outcomes for glycemic control.

    Measured: 9 months following intervention

  3. Continued Technology Use - Days of wear

    Continued technology use by study end will be determined from device platform metrics detailing days/percent time used, in addition to self-report. Per standard diabetes technology clinical trial guidelines, CGM use is defined as ≥ 5/7 days wear over the 9 month period. Days of wear will be summarized study arm using basic descriptive statistics. A target of at least 5/7 days of CGM wear-time is associated with the best outcomes for glycemic control.

    Measured: 9 months following intervention

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted27 Jan 2022
  2. Study start7 Nov 2022
  3. Primary completion8 Sep 2025
  4. Study completion8 Dec 2025

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Health services research
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
9-month randomized controlled trial in which YA-URMs will be randomized to T1D-CATCH or usual care
Masking
Double blind
Who is masked
Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
119 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05211869
Sponsor's protocol ID
2021-13714
Other IDs
R01DK132302
Acronym
T1DTechCHW
Status last verified
Jan 2026
First submitted
16 Dec 2021
Last updated
12 Jan 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Agarwal S, Schechter C, Gonzalez J, Long JA. Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes Technology use Among Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2021 Apr;23(4):306-313. doi: 10.1089/dia.2020.0338. Epub 2020 Dec 1.

    PubMed 33155826

  • Willi SM, Miller KM, DiMeglio LA, Klingensmith GJ, Simmons JH, Tamborlane WV, Nadeau KJ, Kittelsrud JM, Huckfeldt P, Beck RW, Lipman TH; T1D Exchange Clinic Network. Racial-ethnic disparities in management and outcomes among children with type 1 diabetes. Pediatrics. 2015 Mar;135(3):424-34. doi: 10.1542/peds.2014-1774.

    PubMed 25687140

  • Livingstone SJ, Levin D, Looker HC, Lindsay RS, Wild SH, Joss N, Leese G, Leslie P, McCrimmon RJ, Metcalfe W, McKnight JA, Morris AD, Pearson DW, Petrie JR, Philip S, Sattar NA, Traynor JP, Colhoun HM; Scottish Diabetes Research Network epidemiology group; Scottish Renal Registry. Estimated life expectancy in a Scottish cohort with type 1 diabetes, 2008-2010. JAMA. 2015 Jan 6;313(1):37-44. doi: 10.1001/jama.2014.16425.

    PubMed 25562264

  • Foster NC, Beck RW, Miller KM, Clements MA, Rickels MR, DiMeglio LA, Maahs DM, Tamborlane WV, Bergenstal R, Smith E, Olson BA, Garg SK. State of Type 1 Diabetes Management and Outcomes from the T1D Exchange in 2016-2018. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2019 Feb;21(2):66-72. doi: 10.1089/dia.2018.0384. Epub 2019 Jan 18.

    PubMed 30657336

  • McKergow E, Parkin L, Barson DJ, Sharples KJ, Wheeler BJ. Demographic and regional disparities in insulin pump utilization in a setting of universal funding: a New Zealand nationwide study. Acta Diabetol. 2017 Jan;54(1):63-71. doi: 10.1007/s00592-016-0912-7. Epub 2016 Sep 20.

    PubMed 27650535

  • Agarwal S, Crespo-Ramos G, Long JA, Miller VA. "I Didn't Really Have a Choice": Qualitative Analysis of Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes Technology Use Among Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2021 Sep;23(9):616-622. doi: 10.1089/dia.2021.0075.

    PubMed 33761284

  • Lai CW, Lipman TH, Willi SM, Hawkes CP. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Rates of Continuous IRB NUMBER: 2021-13714 IRB APPROVAL DATE: 03/23/2022 Glucose Monitor Initiation and Continued Use in Children With Type 1 Diabetes. 2020;(Online ahead of print). doi:10.2337/dc20-1663

  • Addala A, Auzanneau M, Miller K, Maier W, Foster N, Kapellen T, Walker A, Rosenbauer J, Maahs DM, Holl RW. A Decade of Disparities in Diabetes Technology Use and HbA1c in Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes: A Transatlantic Comparison. Diabetes Care. 2021 Jan;44(1):133-140. doi: 10.2337/dc20-0257. Epub 2020 Sep 16.

    PubMed 32938745

  • Addala A, Hanes S, Naranjo D, Maahs DM, Hood KK. Provider Implicit Bias Impacts Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes Technology Recommendations in the United States: Findings from The Gatekeeper Study. J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2021 Sep;15(5):1027-1033. doi: 10.1177/19322968211006476. Epub 2021 Apr 15.

    PubMed 33858206

  • Walker AF, Hood KK, Gurka MJ, Filipp SL, Anez-Zabala C, Cuttriss N, Haller MJ, Roque X, Naranjo D, Aulisio G, Addala A, Konopack J, Westen S, Yabut K, Mercado E, Look S, Fitzgerald B, Maizel J, Maahs DM. Barriers to Technology Use and Endocrinology Care for Underserved Communities With Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2021 Jul;44(7):1480-1490. doi: 10.2337/dc20-2753. Epub 2021 May 17.

    PubMed 34001535

  • Findley SE, Matos S, Hicks AL, Campbell A, Moore A, Diaz D. Building a consensus on community health workers' scope of practice: lessons from New York. Am J Public Health. 2012 Oct;102(10):1981-7. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300566. Epub 2012 Aug 16.

    PubMed 22897548

  • Saydah S, Imperatore G, Cheng Y, Geiss LS, Albright A. Disparities in Diabetes Deaths Among Children and Adolescents - United States, 2000-2014. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2017 May 19;66(19):502-505. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6619a4.

    PubMed 28520705

  • Walker RJ, Gebregziabher M, Martin-Harris B, Egede LE. Independent effects of socioeconomic and psychological social determinants of health on self-care and outcomes in Type 2 diabetes. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2014 Nov-Dec;36(6):662-8. doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2014.06.011. Epub 2014 Jul 9.

    PubMed 25103544

  • Walker RJ, Gebregziabher M, Martin-Harris B, Egede LE. Quantifying direct effects of social determinants of health on glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2015 Feb;17(2):80-7. doi: 10.1089/dia.2014.0166. Epub 2014 Oct 31.

    PubMed 25361382

  • Berkowitz SA, Meigs JB, DeWalt D, Seligman HK, Barnard LS, Bright OJ, Schow M, Atlas SJ, Wexler DJ. Material need insecurities, control of diabetes mellitus, and use of health care resources: results of the Measuring Economic Insecurity in Diabetes study. JAMA Intern Med. 2015 Feb;175(2):257-65. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.6888.

    PubMed 25545780

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing T1D-CATCH in people with Diabetes and Type 1 Diabetes, run by Albert Einstein College of Medicine at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 5 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 12 Jan 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Technology Initiation (time frame: 6 months following intervention). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT05211869, which also lists 24 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 12 Jan 2026.

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