This research study aims to test a financial and health insurance iHERO Toolkit for young adults with type1 diabetes. The iHERO Toolkit was developed over one year with the type 1 diabetes community, The Diabetes Link organization, and experts. Now, the investigators want to understand the impact of the iHERO Toolkit on diabetes self-management, financial stress, and health insurance literacy outcomes. The investigators are doing this study because it will help to better understand how to support health insurance and financial stress and improve self-management outcomes in young adults with type 1 diabetes. The investigators want to understand how the iHERO Toolkit helps all young adults with diabetes, but especially those on Medicaid and who are racially or ethnically diverse. The investigators will ask participants to participate at four-time points over one year. For the first time, participants will fill out online enrollment and demographic forms and 9 surveys. The 9 surveys have 8-40 short questions each, estimated to take about 45 minutes. Participants will also be asked to complete a home A1c collection with a University Hospitals team member on Zoom.
Age range
18 Years – 30 Years
Sex
ALL
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Change in financial stress as measured by the Personal Financial Well-Being Scale© (PFW) Scale (PFW)
Timeframe: Baseline, 1 month, 6 months, 12 months
Change in health insurance literacy as measured by The Health Insurance Literacy Measure (HILM) Measure (HILM)
Timeframe: Baseline, 1 month, 6 months, 12 months
Change in diabetes-specific quality of life as measured by The Type 1 Diabetes and Life Young Adult (T1DAL- Young Adult) for ages 18-25 or The Type 1 Diabetes and Life (T1DAL- Adult) for Ages 26-30.
Timeframe: Baseline, 1 month, 6 months, 12 months
Change in transition navigation readiness as measured by the The Readiness for Emerging Adults with Diabetes Diagnosed in Youth (READDY) Navigation Subscale
Timeframe: Baseline, 1 month, 6 months, 12 months
Change in HbA1c levels as measured by self-collect capillary HbA1c
Timeframe: Baseline, 6 months, 12 months