Cure8 research brief
Transition to adult care is a high-risk time when adolescents with IBD can experience care gaps and worsened disease control. Understanding which fixed and modifiable factors affect transition can help patients, families, and clinicians plan more effective, personalised transition support.
Adolescents with IBD and their parents/caregivers; paediatric and adult IBD clinicians; transition programme coordinators; psychosocial support teams.
This mixed-methods systematic review (41 studies) synthesises factors that influence transition from paediatric to adult IBD care.
The authors used the SMART transition model and grouped influences into two broad categories: pre-existing objective factors (socio-demographics, insurance/access, baseline health/risk) and modifiable subjective variables (developmental maturity, disease knowledge, self-management skills and self-efficacy, beliefs/expectations, goals, relationships, and psychosocial functioning).
The review is framed as guidance for developing more individualised transition programmes: it suggests using pre-existing risk factors to identify adolescents who may need earlier or more intensive, family-involved transition support, and targeting the modifiable subjective factors with tailored interventions (education, skills training, psychosocial support).
The article follows PRISMA 2020 and assessed included studies with MMAT; however, the curation is based on the article abstract and the authors' synthesis rather than re-reviewing each primary study.
This classification is based on the article abstract (convergent mixed-methods systematic review). The review synthesises existing studies but does not present new trial data; local practice and available transition resources will affect how findings apply. The review assessed study quality with MMAT but individual study strengths and limitations vary.
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Funding disclosed by the source: Eastern Elite Talent Program
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