Efficacy of Automated Text Messaging Services

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Sleep; Physical Therapy
• Interventions: Behavioral: Automated Text messaging

• Registration Number: NCT05621265
• Lead Sponsor: Black Hills State University

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test automated text messaging as an effective behavior change intervention in physical therapy patients. The main purpose of this study was to trial sleep hygiene education for improving physical therapy patients' sleep through the use of daily automated text messaging. Researchers will compare two groups to see if the intervention group which consisted of participants getting daily automated text messages for sleep hygiene tips would be effective in improving sleep, health, pain, and function compared to a group that is receiving traditional physical therapy alone.

Detailed Description

Participants will be recruited from the outpatient physical therapy clinic verbally by their therapist and by an informational handout they receive from the therapist. The student researcher (who also works at this clinic) will then contact the participant to set up a time to complete the initial survey questions at the clinic in a private treatment room. During the initial visit, participants will read through and sign informed consent explaining the procedures and expectations of them during the study. The participants will then complete the following questionnaires: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Sleep Hygiene Index, Medical Outcome Survey-sleep 9, Perceived Stress Scale, Numeric Pain Rating Scale, and Patient Specific Functional Scale. The participants will randomly be assigned to one of two groups. The intervention group will receive daily automated text messages scheduled for 8:00 pm every evening. The text messages will include a variety of sleep hygiene behavioral tips for the participant to try. This will last for a total of four weeks. The control group will not receive any intervention during this time frame. Following the four weeks, student researchers will return to each participant's clinic to collect the same data that was collected at the initial visit. Each participant will have a total of 2 sessions to complete with each session taking approximately 15-30 minutes to complete.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-10-01
• Primary Completion: 2022-04-01
• Study Completion: 2022-05-01
• Status Verified: 2022-11
• Study First Submitted: 2022-11-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-11-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-11-17
• Study First Posted: 2022-11-18
• Last Update Posted: 2022-11-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

Adults 18 years and older seeking outpatient Physical Therapy

Exclusion Criteria

Inability to access a smart-phone or computer

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Automated Text messaging	Automated Text messaging for sleep behavior change

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Sleep Hygiene Index	initial and 4-week follow up	measuring participants sleep hygiene behaviors. Scores range 0-52 with a higher score indicating poorer sleep hygiene.
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index	initial visit and 4-week follow up	sleep quality measurement. Scores range 0-21 with higher score indicating poorer sleep quality.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Perceived Stress Scale	initial and 4-week follow up	stress measurement. Scores range 0-40 with higher score indicating greater stress.
Patient Specific Functional Scale	initial and 4-week follow up	scale for improving patient's top three chosen functions they want to improve. Scores range from 0-10 with lower scores indicating poorer function.
Numeric Pain rating Scale	Initial and 4-week follow up	tool to measure pain. 0-10 with 10 being highest pain possible.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Black Hills Physical Therapy; 🇺🇸 Spearfish, South Dakota, United States