Message Communicating Latest Data on COVID-19 Transmission in Patient's Area

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Completed

Conditions: COVID-19

Treatments: Behavioral: COVID Booster text messages

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05621226

851911-Trial F

Details and patient eligibility

About

This experiment is part of a megastudy with a total of ten experimental conditions and a holdout control condition to which patients will be randomly assigned. The focal comparison in this experiment is between a message encouraging vaccination by communicating to patients that they live in an area with significant COVID transmission and a control message telling patients that an updated COVID booster vaccine is waiting for them.

Enrollment: 520,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

1. The patient unsubscribed from texts before the send date and time of the patient's SMS/MMS message
2. The patient received a bivalent COVID booster before the send date and time of the patient's SMS/MMS message.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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520,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Control condition with "waiting for you" message

Experimental group

Description:

This control condition will use the text message that the investigators found to be the best performing in their last mega-study of vaccine text messages to recommend a COVID vaccination.

Treatment:

Behavioral: COVID Booster text messages

Message communicating latest data on COVID transmission in patient's area

Experimental group

Description:

This condition will use a text message informing the participant of the latest data on COVID transmission in participant's area and recommend a COVID vaccination.

Treatment:

Behavioral: COVID Booster text messages