Text-Enabled Ascertainment and Community Linkage for Health
Not Applicable
Terminated
- Conditions
- Emergency Medicine
- Interventions
- Other: Text message information
- Registration Number
- NCT04058301
- Lead Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Brief Summary
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.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- TERMINATED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 38
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.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Text message Text message information Participants receive a generic handout about resources in Boston and a text message with a geographically proximate resource
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Satisfaction: Likert scale 3-5 days Participants will be asked about their satisfaction with the program measured on a Likart scale. Options will include "Extremely or Quite a bit; Somewhat; A little bit or Not at all"
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Resource use 3-5 days Participants will be asked about actual and planned resource use
Health status 3-5 days Participants will be asked about health status. In general, how would you rate your health? Excellent, Very good, Good or Fair,Poor
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Massachusetts General Hospital
🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, United States