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

Text Reminders for Immunization Compliance in Kids

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Child Immunizations
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Standard of care; Behavioral: Text Messaging

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 90
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Kansas
    • Wichita, Kansas, United States, 67214
      • Kansas University School of Medicine-Wichita

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Standard of care	Behavioral: Standard of care; You will receive an immunization handout and verbal instructions regarding your child's next apt. Your child's immuniztion records will also be checked through KSWebIZ an internet based system that tracks immunizations for kids in Kansas.
Experimental: Text Messaging	Behavioral: Text Messaging; You will receive text message reminders prior to your child's two, four and six month immunization due dates. You will be asked to take part in a phone interview and your child's immuniztion records will be checked through KSWebIZ an internet based system that tracks immunizations for kids in Kansas.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

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

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
the second aim is to implement the TRICKs intervention with parents of newborns.	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.	up to 1 year
the third aim is to collect immunization information on participant's children.	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.	up to 1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Kansas

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Ahlers-Schmidt CR, Chesser AK, Nguyen T, Brannon J, Hart TA, Williams KS, Wittler RR. Feasibility of a randomized controlled trial to evaluate Text Reminders for Immunization Compliance in Kids (TRICKs). Vaccine. 2012 Aug 3;30(36):5305-9. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.06.058. Epub 2012 Jun 29.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: July 1, 2010
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 1, 2011
• Study Completion (Actual): December 1, 2011

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 17, 2011
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 18, 2011
• First Posted (Estimate): July 19, 2011

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): March 12, 2012
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 9, 2012
• Last Verified: March 1, 2012

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 10-018