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Safer Food Allergy Management for Adolescents

22 de marzo de 2021 actualizado por: University of Pennsylvania
Among the 15 million people with food allergies in the U.S., adolescents experience the highest risk of adverse events. Yet, there are few evidence-based strategies to improve food allergy management in adolescents. In a cohort multiple randomized controlled trial, this study will include two experiments to test the effectiveness of text message reminders and incentives to encourage epinephrine-carrying.

Descripción general del estudio

Estado

Terminado

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Intervención / Tratamiento

Descripción detallada

Among the 15 million people with food allergies in the United States, adolescents experience the highest risk of adverse events, including death from anaphylaxis. Visits to one pediatric emergency department for anaphylaxis doubled between 2001 and 2006, suggesting a rapidly escalating public health burden. Despite this critical concern, there are few evidence-based strategies to improve food allergy management in adolescents, who must sustain three core prevention strategies: diligent avoidance of allergenic foods, consistent carrying of potentially life-saving epinephrine auto-injectors, and prompt administration of epinephrine in the event of anaphylaxis.

The objective of this study is to develop and test interventions to encourage safer food allergy management among adolescents. The primary outcome is consistency of epinephrine-carrying, measured using cell phone photographs at randomly-timed check-ins. This study will be among the first to longitudinally track normative food allergy management practices and one of the first to test behavior change strategies.

In a cohort multiple randomized controlled trial (n=130), the study will include two experiments to test the effectiveness of text message reminders and incentives, using various incentive designs that have proven effective in prior behavioral economics interventions to encourage weight loss and smoking cessation. Aim 1. Test the impact of a text-message reminder system on consistency of epinephrine carrying. Aim 2. Test the impact of modest incentives on consistency of epinephrine carrying. Based on promising preliminary data, the central hypothesis is that, compared to controls, adolescents who receive text message reminders plus modest financial incentives will more consistently carry their epinephrine.

Tipo de estudio

Intervencionista

Inscripción (Actual)

138

Fase

  • No aplica

Contactos y Ubicaciones

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Ubicaciones de estudio

  • Estados Unidos
    • Pennsylvania
      • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Estados Unidos, 19104
        • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
      • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Estados Unidos, 19104
        • University of Pennsylvania

Criterios de participación

Los investigadores buscan personas que se ajusten a una determinada descripción, denominada criterio de elegibilidad. Algunos ejemplos de estos criterios son el estado de salud general de una persona o tratamientos previos.

Criterio de elegibilidad

Edades elegibles para estudiar

15 años a 19 años (Niño, Adulto)

Acepta Voluntarios Saludables

No

Géneros elegibles para el estudio

Todos

Descripción

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Food allergy diagnosis by a physician and recorded in the medical chart
  • Prior prescription of epinephrine auto-injector to treat anaphylaxis
  • Access to a cell phone capable of sending and receiving text messages and photographs (our team will provide cell phones to participants willing to participate, but who do not own a cellphone)
  • Fluent in English
  • Between ages 15-19 at baseline

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Unable to obtain permission (consent) of a parent to participate in the study
  • Will not or cannot give assent
  • Currently participating in another clinical trial with related aims

Plan de estudios

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¿Cómo está diseñado el estudio?

Detalles de diseño

  • Propósito principal: Prevención
  • Asignación: Aleatorizado
  • Modelo Intervencionista: Asignación factorial
  • Enmascaramiento: Ninguno (etiqueta abierta)

Armas e Intervenciones

Grupo de participantes/brazo
Intervención / Tratamiento
Experimental: Intervention 1
Text Message Only
Conductual: Text Message Only
The intervention group (n=25, randomly selected from the base cohort) will receive informational and socially supportive text messages during a 10-week intervention. Investigators will deploy the intervention using the Way to Health platform, which automates outgoing messages and feedback. Many of the messages will be sent to all Intervention 1 participants, to assure consistency of the intervention. A subset will be tailored to address participants' specific allergies. At 10 unannounced check-ins, we will send text messages asking participants in the intervention and control groups if they are carrying their epinephrine.
Experimental: Intervention 2, Incentive
Text message + Incentive
Conductual: Text message + Incentive 1
Among base cohort members not exposed to the text message only intervention (#1), we will randomly select a new intervention group (n=50) to receive text message reminders plus Incentive 1. At each of 10 unannounced check-ins, if unsuccessful in documenting epinephrine-carrying, participants will lose part of their incentive. The remainder of the Cohort (control) will receive text reminders.
Sin intervención: Cohort
For the cohort multiple randomized controlled trial (cmRCT), investigators will recruit 130 participants (the base cohort) ages 15-19. The base cohort allows investigators to measure normative food allergy self-management practices, while also serving as a control for experiments in Interventions 1 and 2.
Sin intervención: Control
The baseline cohort serves as the control group in this cmRCT. Participants will not receive text message reminders (during Intervention 1) or incentives (during Intervention 2). However, they will participate in all data collection points, including text message check-ins to assess epinephrine-carrying. Participants in the base cohort will receive usual care.
Sin intervención: Adolescent Allergy Advisors
We will pilot the text messages to be used in Interventions 1 and 2 through interviews and cognitive testing among 20 Adolescent Allergy Advisors, who will critique message content, framing, and language. These advisors will not be part of the cohort multiple randomized controlled trial.

¿Qué mide el estudio?

Medidas de resultado primarias

Medida de resultado
Medida Descripción
Periodo de tiempo
Proportion of check-ins at which participant is carrying epinephrine auto-injector
Periodo de tiempo: 10 randomly timed check-ins during the 10-week intervention period
Proportion of check-ins at which participant is carrying epinephrine auto-injector, measured using cell phone photographs
10 randomly timed check-ins during the 10-week intervention period

Medidas de resultado secundarias

Medida de resultado
Medida Descripción
Periodo de tiempo
Characterize adolescents' normative food allergy management practices
Periodo de tiempo: Year-long cohort study
Characterize adolescents' normative food allergy management practices, measured comparing baseline and follow-up surveys that assess social challenges, out-of-home eating, allergen avoidance, and response to adverse events.
Year-long cohort study
Characterize adolescents' normative food allergy management practices
Periodo de tiempo: Year-long cohort study
Characterize adolescents' normative food allergy management practices, measured using periodic text-message questions that assess social challenges, out-of-home eating, allergen avoidance, and response to adverse events.
Year-long cohort study
Develop a set of text message reminders to promote safer food allergy management among adolescents
Periodo de tiempo: 2-year project period
Develop a set of text message reminders to promote safer food allergy management among adolescents by cognitively testing text message content
2-year project period

Colaboradores e Investigadores

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Patrocinador

University of Pennsylvania

Colaboradores

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Investigadores

  • Investigador principal: Carolyn C Cannuscio, ScD, University of Pennsylvania
  • Investigador principal: Jonathan Spergel, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Fechas de registro del estudio

Estas fechas rastrean el progreso del registro del estudio y los envíos de resultados resumidos a ClinicalTrials.gov. Los registros del estudio y los resultados informados son revisados ​​por la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina (NLM) para asegurarse de que cumplan con los estándares de control de calidad específicos antes de publicarlos en el sitio web público.

Fechas importantes del estudio

Inicio del estudio (Actual)

18 de enero de 2018

Finalización primaria (Actual)

18 de enero de 2020

Finalización del estudio (Actual)

31 de julio de 2020

Fechas de registro del estudio

Enviado por primera vez

7 de septiembre de 2017

Primero enviado que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad

12 de septiembre de 2017

Publicado por primera vez (Actual)

15 de septiembre de 2017

Actualizaciones de registros de estudio

Última actualización publicada (Actual)

25 de marzo de 2021

Última actualización enviada que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad

22 de marzo de 2021

Última verificación

1 de marzo de 2021

Más información

Términos relacionados con este estudio

Términos MeSH relevantes adicionales

Otros números de identificación del estudio

  • 827073

Plan de datos de participantes individuales (IPD)

¿Planea compartir datos de participantes individuales (IPD)?

NO

Información sobre medicamentos y dispositivos, documentos del estudio

Estudia un producto farmacéutico regulado por la FDA de EE. UU.

No

Estudia un producto de dispositivo regulado por la FDA de EE. UU.

No

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