Increasing Teen Access to Care (AccessKCTeen2)

Increasing Teen Access to Care Using Peer Social Networks and Mobile Health Services

Investigators will form community partnership with community sites that will disseminate curated educational information on Sexual and Reproductive Health/Mental Health (SRH/MH). Investigators will attend a series of outreach events hosted by community partners community and community leaders that provide/demonstrate telemedicine and the Children's Mercy Mobile Unit which is equipped to provide direct patient care. Investigators will engage up to 40 teen peer leaders to encourage healthcare-seeking behaviors and mobilize their social networks to attend outreach events. At all events, the mobile unit will be available for teens to (a) demonstrate the mobile; (b) learn about Sexual and Reproductive Health/Mental Health (SRH/MH) and local care resources; (d) acquire free over-the-counter emergency contraception, birth control, condoms, and pregnancy tests.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Health Care Utilization
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Peer Leader Model

Detailed Description

AccessKCTeen is a pilot clinical outreach program that uses Children Mercy's Mobile Unit and Telemedicine to demonstrate and increase access to SRH and MH.

AccessKCTeen intends to focus on these central activities:

1. Education based on a peer-leader model: In collaboration with community-based partners, investigators will identify and train approximately 40 peer leaders in disseminating information and resources for Sexual and Reproductive Health/Mental Health (SRH/MH) MH/SRH to their social networks. Peer leaders may disseminate information in the form of sharing curated online resources or mobilizing friends to attend live educational events. Peer leaders will also help connect their friends to resources by spreading information and encouraging friends to attend CM mobile unit demonstrations. Investigators will use text messaging to engage peers in these educational events and share general health resources.
2. Mobile Unit and Telemedicine Demonstration Events: The mobile unit will be present at community events to demonstrate how in-person care could work on the unit as well as how telemedicine works. Investigators will answer questions and help adolescents get registered for telemedicine.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 53
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Missouri
    • Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64108
      • Children's Mercy Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years to 100 years (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

1. INTERVENTION TRIAL PARTICIPANTS and Peer Leaders (ADOLECENTS) Inclusion Criteria

   • Aged 14-18 years and 364 days old

     a. Exclusion Criteria

   • Younger than 14 years old or older than 18 years and 364 days at the time of enrollment
   • Does not speak/understand English
   • Not recruited from an already nominated or enrolled adolescent

2. Event Day Trail PARTICIPANTS (ADOLECENTS) Inclusion Criteria

   • Aged 14-18 years and 364 days old

     a. Exclusion Criteria

   • Younger than 14 years old or older than 18 years and 364 days at the time of enrollment
   • Does not speak/understand English
   • Not recruited from an already nominated or enrolled adolescent

3. ADULT STAKEHOLDERS Inclusion Criteria

   • Aged 18 years and older
   • Involved with teens as trusted adults (e.g., parent of teen, member of community, works at community partner organization)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention Trial Participants; All adolescents will have access to THO+ activities and materials shared by the peer leaders. All adolescents will be asked to complete an eligibility screening survey and baseline survey online or in-person. They will complete short surveys at 2, 4 and 6 months via Twilio text, call, or email. Peer Leaders Investigators will enroll up to 40 Peer Leaders. In addition to the above activities (under intervention trial participant), if a teen is a "peer leader" they will attend a training session in-person or online with our study team to learn about sexual and mental health information and how to share information with their friends (like text or social media). The peer leaders will answer the same surveys described above and will be asked about their Peer Leader experience and how they are sharing the study health information.	Other: Peer Leader Model; Teens will have an opportunity to interact with established peer leaders that are a part of the AccessKCTeen program. These leaders will receive a baseline training of their role, sexual and mental health. They will also receive health education and engage with a peer liaison via text messages throughout the study.; Other Names: THO+
No Intervention: Adult Stakeholders; Adults Involved with teens (e.g., parent of teen, member of community, works at community partner organization) that will help promote community based events and provide feedback on events.
Experimental: Event Day Participants; Adolescents not already in the trial who attend demonstration and clinical care events must enroll as research participants if they want to receive study medications or testing. This again is all optional to teens. This survey will ask for contact information which is required to track study medications and provide testing results, all other survey questions will be optional.	Other: Peer Leader Model; Teens will have an opportunity to interact with established peer leaders that are a part of the AccessKCTeen program. These leaders will receive a baseline training of their role, sexual and mental health. They will also receive health education and engage with a peer liaison via text messages throughout the study.; Other Names: THO+

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Healthcare Utilization from Baseline to 6 months via Participant Survey.	Measurement of participant use of healthcare utilization through trial. Healthcare utilization measured through surveys from participants at baseline, 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months.	Baseline to 6 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Melissa Millerr, MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 8, 2022
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 30, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): May 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 17, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 1, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): July 6, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 13, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 11, 2023
• Last Verified: September 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 00002100

Drug and device information, study documents

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