Bringing Advocacy Via Digital Guide to the Emergency Department (Project BADGE)

Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Diabetes

Treatments: Behavioral: Text-based resource referral platform with diabetes educational materials

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06736431

Pro2024001476

Details and patient eligibility

About

The pilot study of Project BADGE will focus on emergency department (ED) patients with diabetes, which has significant disparities in prevalence and mortality for underserved populations. The objective is to determine the effect of a text-based resource referral platform with diabetes educational materials on patient diabetes knowledge, diabetes distress, diabetes self-care activities, and acceptability and feasibility of the intervention.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Adult (18+) ED/observation unit patients
2. Have poorly controlled or new onset diabetes (hyperglycemia or Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA))
3. Speak English or Spanish
4. Has a cell phone able to send and receive text messages

Exclusion criteria

1) Intubated patient

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 1 patient group

Text-based platform

Experimental group

Description:

Text-based resource referral platform with diabetes educational materials

Treatment:

Behavioral: Text-based resource referral platform with diabetes educational materials