NCT01789697

Text Message Study

Using Mobile Phone Text Messaging and E-mailing to Decrease Anxiety, Pain, Follow-up Visits and Improve Reporting of Surgical Site Infection After Spine Surgery: A Double-Blind Randomized Trial

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (actual)
• Sponsor: Duke University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objectives of this double-blind, randomized, controlled study are to evaluate the efficacy of maintaining contact with low-back pain patients through text messaging and emailing, to decrease anxiety levels, pain, number of follow-up visits through text messaging and emailing, and to improve reporting of surgical site infection after spine surgery through text messaging and emailing. The outcomes that will be measured are anxiety, pain, follow-up visits and received phone calls, and reporting signs of surgical site infection. Participants will include Dr. Oren Gottfried's patients who underwent spine surgery at Duke Hospital or at Duke Raleigh Hospital. Patients will be approached after determination that the patient is going to undergo spinal surgery. All patients meeting inclusion criteria will be approached to participate irrespective of race or ethnicity. A total of 194 subjects will be recruited.

Conditions

• Anxiety
• Pain
• Surgical Site Infection

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	cellular device/computers	A random group of patients will receive text messages to their cellular device from the surgeon, as well as emails to their email addresses.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-09-01
• Primary completion: 2014-03-01
• Completion: 2014-03-01
• First posted: 2013-02-12
• Last updated: 2018-04-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States