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Text Message Vaccine Reminders for Adolescents With Chronic Medical Conditions

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Columbia University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Vaccination

Treatments

Other: educational text message reminders
Other: conventional text message reminders

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
Industry

Identifiers

NCT02231957
AAAM3756

Details and patient eligibility

About

There are a growing number of adolescents with chronic medical conditions in the United States. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends HPV vaccination and annual influenza vaccination of all adolescents. Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination is also recommended for certain high-risk patients. Limited studies suggest that vaccination coverage of this population remains sub-optimal. Text message vaccine reminder/recall has been shown to be effective in increasing uptake of select pediatric and adolescents vaccines, but has yet to be examined among patients with chronic medical conditions who may also face unique barriers to vaccination. This intervention aims to implement and evaluate the use of text message vaccine reminders among urban low-income minority adolescents with chronic medical conditions. This investigator-initiated study is supported in part by a grant from the Pfizer Medical Education Group.

Enrollment

416 patients

Sex

All

Ages

11+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Parent with

  1. adolescent aged 11-17 years;
  2. adolescent with ≥1 chronic medical condition;
  3. adolescent with clinic visit in last 12 months;
  4. cell phone number listed in hospital registration system

Exclusion criteria

Parent who:

  1. does not speak English or Spanish;
  2. is unwilling to receive text message vaccine reminders;
  3. anticipates moving from area in coming 12 months

Trial design

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Triple Blind

416 participants in 2 patient groups

educational text message reminders
Experimental group
Description:
receipt of education-embedded text message vaccine reminders
Treatment:
Other: educational text message reminders
conventional text message reminders
Active Comparator group
Description:
receipt of conventional text message vaccine reminders
Treatment:
Other: conventional text message reminders

Trial contacts and locations

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