Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Structured education should be appropriate to the learning styles of participants. Health professionals and experts in education worked together to develop KICk-OFF for 11–16 year olds and similar experience has now been used in the development of Junior KICk-OFF for Key Stage (KS) 1 (4–7 years) and KS2 (7–11 years).Method: The KICk-OFF team developed the curricula with input from teachers and an academic educationalist. Sectio...

Background: Currently there are no evaluated diabetes teaching packages for primary school age children which meet their learning needs, styles and are delivered by trained educators. Sheffield children’s Hospital produced and tested, as a randomized controlled trial (RCT), the KICk-OFF course for 11–16 year olds. This 5-day course based on carbohydrate counting and insulin dose adjustment showed significant improvement in HbA1c (9 mmol/mol, 0.8%) for those with poor...