Text Reminders for Immunization Compliance in Kids (TRICKS) Pilot Study

Kansas Board of Regents

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child Immunizations

Treatments: Behavioral: Standard of care; Behavioral: Text Messaging

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01396902

10-018

Details and patient eligibility

About

As a participant in these research program you will be a parent of a child born at Wesley Medical Center who plan to use Carriage Park Pediatric Clinic for your child's care. Mobile phone text messages will be sent to remind you of your child's immunizations.

The long term research goal is to increase childhood immunization rates by improving parental health literacy through an innovative text messaging system regarding immunization schedules for children under the age of six.

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• parent or caregiver of a well child born at Wesley Medical Center;
• planning to utilize the Carriage Park Pediatric Clinic for his/her child's medical home; (
• adult (> 18 years of age);
• present use of a mobile phone for sending and receiving text messages;
• English or Spanish speaking;
• able to provide informed consent.

Exclusion criteria include:

• personal or religious beliefs against immunizations;
• inability to complete enrollment information.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard of care

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard of care

Text Messaging

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Text Messaging