Text Messaging for Adherence in Adolescent Liver Transplant Recipients

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adherence; Liver Transplant

Treatments: Behavioral: Text Message Reminder

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01696331

25318

Details and patient eligibility

About

Text message reminders will improve adherence to lab tests in adolescent liver transplant recipients.

Full description

Adolescent patients who received a liver transplant will be recruited to participate in receiving text message reminders for lab tests. They will be send de-identified messages according to their required lab schedule. The investigators will monitor their adherence to lab tests as well as medication and clinic visits. They will also have a questionnaire about their medical regimen before and at the end of the study.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 25 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient >12 years
• Received liver transplant
• Followed by Stanford Liver Transplant Team

Exclusion criteria

• No personal cell phone

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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42 participants in 1 patient group

Text Message Reminder

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Text Message Reminder