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News & update on DAWN™ MIND

DAWN MIND study update

The preliminary DAWN MIND study results concludes that monitoring of well-being in outpatients with diabetes as part of an annual review proved feasible across countries, and was well accepted. Monitoring helps identify patients’ psychological needs that are otherwise likely to stay unrecognized.

Specific attention should be paid to patients with complications and major life events, given their higher risk of psychological problems. Including the psychological well-being of patients as part of the monitoring, it is likely to improve the outcome of the diabetes treatment as well as reduce the cost of treating diabetes.

DAWN MIND Youth

The latest initiative under DAWN MIND is the DAWN MIND Youth project being developed to facilitate the assessment of psychosocial care needs in children and adolescents with diabetes and their families. It is based on the DAWN MIND adult program, which is already being used to good effect in a number of centres throughout the world. The questionnaire used in the DAWN MIND Youth project, the MY-Q, integrates a number of existing psychological assessment scales.

Training programmes and a manual are being developed to facilitate its uptake, and pilot clinics will gather important data to inform on its impact. Through this project, it is hoped that standardized assessment of psychosocial needs will become an increasingly common part of paediatric diabetes care. The programme will be available for roll-out in the Spring 2010. More information will follow about the programme.

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