Paula Trief, PhD

RESEARCH ABSTRACT

1. Developing a couples based telephone intervention with adults with type 2 diabetes- with Ruth Weinstock, MD/PhD, and Jonathan Sandberg, PhD (Syracuse University) Marital quality has been identified as a predictor of adaptation to type 2 diabetes. This study involved development and testing of a psychosocial intervention that can be used with couples in which one partner has type 2 diabetes, and assessing it’s feasibility, acceptability and efficacy.
2. TODAY2-iCount Study. With Ruth Weinstock, MD/PhD. The TODAY (Treatment Options for Adolescents and Youth with type 2 Diabetes), Study was a multi-site (N=15) trial of treatment alternatives for youth who have type 2 diabetes, to identify whether medications alone, or in combination with an intensive lifestyle intervention to promote weight loss, is more effective at managing the youth’s diabetes. That study evolved into the TODAY2 study, an observational study of these youth as they move into adulthood. Our furrent NIH-funded TODAY2:iCount Study is ancillary to TODAY2 and provides the opportunity to follow these now young adults on psychosocial factors, specifically to identify factors that predict medication adherence and healthcare usage, as well as psychosocial factors that predict glycemic control and other diabetes-related outcomes.

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