Future acceptance of automated insulin delivery systems in youths with type 1 diabetes: validation of the Italian artificial pancreas-acceptance measure.
Roberto FranceschiRiccardo PertileMarco MariglianoEnza MozzilloClaudio MaffeisSilvana ZaffaniCarlotta DusiniAnnalisa AntonelliFrancesca Di CandiaGiulio MaltoniErika CantarelliNicola MinutoMarta BassiIvana RabboneSilvia SavastioStefano PassanisiFortunato LombardoValentino CherubiniMaria Alessandra SaltarelliStefano TuminiPublished in: Acta diabetologica (2024)
We developed a new questionnaire based on the items available in the literature, and we demonstrated that the "AP-acceptance" reveals a meaningful factor structure, good internal reliability, and agreement between parent-young people evaluations. This measure could be a valuable resource for clinicians and researchers to assess AP acceptance in pediatric patients with T1D and their parents. This patient profiling approach could help to enroll candidates for AIDs with proper expectations and who most likely will benefit from the system.