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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Child Immunizations
• Interventions: Behavioral: Standard of care; Behavioral: Text Messaging

• Registration Number: NCT01396902
• Lead Sponsor: University of Kansas

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-07
• Study First Submitted: 2011-07-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-07-18
• Study First Posted: 2011-07-19
• Primary Completion: 2011-12
• Study Completion: 2011-12
• Status Verified: 2012-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-03-09
• Last Update Posted: 2012-03-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 90

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.

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Standard of care	Standard of care	-
Text Messaging	Text Messaging	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
the first aim is to assess our ability to enroll at least 70% (N=90) of eligible parents in a text messaging program	up to 1 year	This will be accomplished through recruitment of parents of newborns at Wesley Medical Center who will receive care from Carriage Park Clinic.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
the second aim is to implement the TRICKs intervention with parents of newborns.	up to 1 year	SMSCaster software will be assessed for its ability to send appointment reminders and to collect follow-up data from parents regarding whether immunization appointments were scheduled.
the third aim is to collect immunization information on participant's children.	up to 1 year	This will be accomplished using the Kansas Immunization Registry (KSWebIZ), a web-based centralized birth to death database that maintains complete, accurate, and secure immunization records for all Kansas residents.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Kansas University School of Medicine-Wichita; 🇺🇸 Wichita, Kansas, United States