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Text Messaging in Healthcare Utilization

NCT03235830 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 231

Last updated 2017-08-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The overall goal is to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of using text messages as an educational tool in order to improve health care utilization among the parents and caregivers of newborns; in particular, the investigators seek to understand how educational text messages counteract the effects of low health literacy as it relates to non-urgent visits to the emergency department.

Conditions

  • Text Messaging

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Enhanced Standard of Care (ESoC) + Text

See above in arm/group description

BEHAVIORAL

Enhanced Standard of Care (ESoC)

See above in arm/group description

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • St. Louis University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Matt Broom, MD · St. Louis University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-28
Primary Completion
2016-08-05
Completion
2016-08-05

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