Recruiting

Text Messaging vs. Usual Care

Sponsor:

Children's National Research Institute

Code:

NCT04372485

Conditions

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 15 - 21

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

mHealth Intervention

Study Details

Brief summary:

We will conduct a randomized trial to compare differences in sexually transmitted infection (STI) treatment adherence between patients receiving text messages versus those receiving usual care (e.g. no text messages). We hypothesize that STI treatment adherence will be 20% higher among patients randomized to receipt of two-way text messaging services.

Conditions

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Study ID

NCT04372485

Start date

Jun 3, 2024

Status verified date

Aug, 2024

Completion date

Jun, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jun, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 15 - 21

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Adolescent patients seen in the Emergency Department who test positive for gonorrhea, chlamydia, or pelvic inflammatory disease and are prescribed outpatient antibiotic treatment.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients will be excluded if they are unable to understand English, are critically ill, have cognitive impairment or if they do not have access to a cellular telephone with text messaging capabilities.

Study Design

Enrollment

270 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

other: mHealth

Adolescents enrolled in this arm will receive treatment-related text messages.

no intervention: Usual care

Adolescents in this arm will receive usual care.

Interventions

mHealth Intervention

Adolescents will receive text messages to facilitate treatment adherence

Primary outcome measure

  • STI treatment adherence [ Time Frame: 1-21 days after prescription filling ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Meleah Boyle, MPH

202-476-5388mdboyle@childrensnational.org

Locations

Children's National Hospital

Recruiting

Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20016-1838

Contacts

Monika Goyal

202-476-2869mgoyal@cnmc.org

More Information

Sponsor

Children's National Research Institute

Last update posted

Aug 21, 2024

Last verified

Aug, 2024

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Children's National Research Institute on 2024-08-21.