Text-Enabled Ascertainment and Community Linkage for Health (TEACH)

Mass General Brigham

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Emergency Medicine

Treatments: Other: Text message information

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04058301

2019P001579

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to pilot test a novel tool for health related social needs screening and linkage to community resources in the ED by randomizing participants to standard handout v. handout + text message with resource information.

Enrollment: 38 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 51 ZIP codes included in our database of community resources ("catchment area")
• >=18 years old
• plan for discharge home
• speak either English or Spanish
• live within the catchment area for the study
• have a cellphone with text messaging capabilities
• ability to respond to text messages from the study team.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who are intoxicated
• on a Section 12
• lack capacity to consent will be excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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38 participants in 2 patient groups

Handout

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants receive a generic handout about resources in Boston

Text message

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive a generic handout about resources in Boston and a text message with a geographically proximate resource

Treatment:

Other: Text message information