NCT01396902

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

Text Reminders for Immunization Compliance in Kids

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Kansas · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Child Immunizations

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Standard of care	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.
BEHAVIORAL	Text Messaging	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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-07-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2011-12-01
• First posted: 2011-07-19
• Last updated: 2012-03-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States