Text-Enabled Ascertainment and Community Linkage for Health (TEACH)

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: Emergency Medicine
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Text message information

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 38
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114
      • Massachusetts General Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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 Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Handout; Participants receive a generic handout about resources in Boston
Experimental: Text message; Participants receive a generic handout about resources in Boston and a text message with a geographically proximate resource	Other: Text message information; Geographically proximate resources delivered by text message

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Satisfaction: Likert scale	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"	3-5 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Resource use	Participants will be asked about actual and planned resource use	3-5 days
Health status	Participants will be asked about health status. In general, how would you rate your health? Excellent, Very good, Good or Fair,Poor	3-5 days

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
ED utilization	Chart review of ED visits and potentially preventable utilization	30 days

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 9, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 1, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): March 1, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 17, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 14, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): August 15, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): January 25, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 23, 2023
• Last Verified: January 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Disease Attributes; Emergencies
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2019P001579

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No