Strategies for Improving Linkage-to-Care After Eye Disease Screening

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Age Related Macular Degeneration; Glaucoma; Diabetic Retinopathy

Treatments: Other: Text Message Reminder; Other: Community Health Volunteer Visit

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06943599

UG1EY036346 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

17-22776-3

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this randomized, parallel-group, controlled trial is to compare methods of enhancing linkage-to-care for participants in the Village Integrated Eye Worker II (VIEW II) trial who are referred to the eye hospital following eye disease screening. Participants who are referred to the hospital at an eye screening visit will be randomized to three different linkage-to-care interventions: (1) text message reminders, (2) reminders from community health workers, or (3) no intervention. The primary outcome of the trial will be whether or not the participant presented to the eye hospital for a referral visit by 21 days following screening.

Enrollment: 3,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participant of the VIEW II study referred to the eye hospital at their eye screening visit.

Exclusion criteria

• Residence in a community without reliable mobile connectivity

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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3,000 participants in 3 patient groups

Text Message Reminders

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Text Message Reminder

Community Health Volunteer

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Community Health Volunteer Visit

No Intervention

No Intervention group