Recruiting

Health Care Transition

Sponsor:

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Code:

NCT06842576

Conditions

Health Care Transition Readiness

Health Literacy

Self Efficacy

Emotional Wellbeing

Appointment Attendance

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 12 - 17

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Health Education Videos

GotTransition.org Website

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this clinical trial is to assess whether social-media style short-form health education videos can increase health care transition readiness, self-efficacy, emotional well-being, health literacy, and appointment attendance, compared with publicly available health education resources in adolescents with chronic illnesses. The main question it aims to answer is:

-Hypothesize social media intervention will increase health care transition readiness, self-efficacy, emotional well-being, health literacy, and appointment attendance compared to publicly available health education website immediately post intervention and at 6 month follow up.

Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the interventions and access the intervention for 20 minutes and complete 30-60 minutes of surveys.

Conditions

Health Care Transition Readiness

Health Literacy

Self Efficacy

Emotional Wellbeing

Appointment Attendance

Study ID

NCT06842576

Start date

Jun 1, 2025

Status verified date

May, 2026

Completion date

Jun 30, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jun 30, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 12 - 17

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients in subspecialty clinics
  • Between 12 and 17 years old
  • With access to an internet-connected device
  • Speaking English or Spanish
  • With sufficient cognitive capacity to understand the study procedures, as assessed via a teach back method.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • none

Study Design

Enrollment

44 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Health education videos

The social media intervention will consist of 7 short videos between 20-60 seconds each, filmed by a professional videographer. Videos 1) start with text asking a question or giving a title highlighting the educational topic, 2) display adolescent volunteer patient partners directly teaching self-management and transition skills, demonstrating the skills via tutorials, or presenting health education content in the style of social media trends, and 3) conclude with a written summary of take-away points. The videos will be shared to participants as a password-protected Vimeo.com playlist. If participants are more comfortable in Spanish, they will be given the option to view the videos dubbed in Spanish.

active comparator: Publicly Available Health Education Website

The social media intervention will be contrasted against a control condition consisting of sharing the GotTransition.org Youth and Young Adult Resources webpage: https://gottransition.org/youth-and-young-adults/. This website is a project from The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health. The webpage includes videos, infographics, quizzes, and frequently asked questions. Testing the social media intervention against this existing national resource will assess whether the novel intervention is relatively more acceptable or efficacious than an active comparison. If participants are more comfortable in Spanish, a prompt will be provided to them to use the website search function to locate resources in Spanish.

Interventions

Health Education Videos

Participants will be prompted to explore the 7 health education videos for up to 20 minutes.

GotTransition.org Website

Participants will be prompted to explore the Gottransition.org website for up to 20 minutes

Primary outcome measure

  • Self-reported score with a range from 1-5, on the Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire (TRAQ). [ Time Frame: Immediate post-treatment and 6-month follow-up. ]
  • Self-reported score ranging from 1 to 4, via the Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES). [ Time Frame: Immediate post-treatment and 6-month follow-up. ]
  • Self-reported score ranging from 1 to 5, via the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children and Adolescents (PANAS-C). [ Time Frame: Immediate post-treatment and 6-month follow-up. ]
  • Self-report questionnaire with a score ranging from 10 to 40, via the Health Literacy for Youth. [ Time Frame: Immediate post-treatment and 6-month follow-up. ]
  • Number of appointments attended divided by the number of appointments scheduled, producing a score ranging from 0 to 100%, via medical chart abstraction. [ Time Frame: Comparing 6 months before intervention to 6 months after intervention. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Caitlin S Sayegh, PhD

323-361-7748cssayegh@chla.usc.edu

Courtney Porter, MPH

323-361-4811coporter@chla.usc.edu

Locations

Children Hospital Los Angeles

Recruiting

Los Angeles, California, United States, 90027

Contacts

Caitlin Sayegh, PhD

323-361-7748cssayegh@chla.usc.edu

Principal Investigator:

Caitlin Sayegh, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Last update posted

May 12, 2026

Last verified

May, 2026

Keywords

  • mobile health
  • health education
  • transition readiness
  • chronic illness
  • adolescence
  • health literacy
  • social media
  • video
  • self efficacy
  • emotional wellbeing

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Children's Hospital Los Angeles on 2026-05-12.