Co-Designing Peer Support Interventions for Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Caregivers: A Novel Integration of Community-Based Participatory Research and Human-Centred Design Thinking
Authors' conclusion
Integrating CBPR and HCD, alongside innovative co-design methods, can effectively centre lived experience to generate actionable, community-informed peer support prototypes for adolescents with T1D and their caregivers.
Study context
- Population
- And young adults (AYAs) with T1D and their caregivers
- Outcome
- Co-design outputs
Methodological detailscommunity-based participatory research, human-centred design, three stages: empathize and define, ideate, prototype, Stage 1: AYAs and caregivers created digital stories; stage 2: community event with diverse diabetes shareholders to generate and prioritize ideas; stage 3: Hackathon to co-design peer support solutions
- Community-based participatory research
- Human-centred design
- Three stages: empathize and define, ideate, prototype
- Stage 1: AYAs and caregivers created digital stories; stage 2: community event with diverse diabetes shareholders to generate and prioritize ideas; stage 3: Hackathon to co-design peer support solutions
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Digital stories produced by AYAs (stage 1)
- Seven
- Caregiver digital stories produced (stage 1)
- four
- Unique ideas generated at community event (stage 2)
- 52
- Hackathon challenge statements (stage 2)
- six
- Peer support prototypes developed at Hackathon (stage 3)
- six
Original publication
Co-Designing Peer Support Interventions for Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Caregivers: A Novel Integration of Community-Based Participatory Research and Human-Centred Design Thinking. Horm Res Paediatr. Published 8 April 2026. doi:10.
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