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

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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.

Official Title
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Text Reminders for Immunization Compliance in Kids

Conditions
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Child Immunizations

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Standard of care
* Behavioral: Text Messaging


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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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.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

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


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Active Comparator: Standard of care<br> | Behavioral: Standard of care<br>* 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.<br>|
| Experimental: Text Messaging<br> | Behavioral: Text Messaging<br>* 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.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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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 |