NCT03178773

TExT-MED + FANS Full Trial

Trial to EXamine Text Messaging for Diabetes in ED Patients Incorporating Social Support - Intervention With Washout

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 166 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Southern California · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is an intervention to study incorporating social support into mHealth interventions for low-income, ED patients with diabetes

Detailed description

Diabetes has disproportionately affected the Latino population. TExT-MED (Trial to Examine Text Message for Emergency Department Patients with Diabetes) is a locally designed, successful mobile health (mHealth) intervention for low income Latinos with diabetes. Social support interventions have likewise been successful at improving patient self-efficacy and disease management but are limited in scale due to two key obstacles: 1) requirements of in-person training of family and friends to be supporters and 2) the need to coordinate schedules and physical location between the patient and their supporter. mHealth can overcome these obstacles by allowing supporters to be trained remotely via a mobile platform and by allowing communication between a patient and supporter to occur at any time or place. The proposed intervention leverages the success of TExT-MED by augmenting the program with a social supporter that each patient can select from his or her own social support system (Family And friend Network Supporters (FANS)), creating TExT-MED+FANS. This is a 12 month, randomized study of this intervention. At the completion of the trial, we will evaluate the user experience with TExT-MED+FANS, and the impact of TExT-MED+FANS on patient motivation, self-efficacy and behaviors through a qualitative analysis of semi-structured individual interviews.

Conditions

• Diabetes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	TExT-MED	messages designed to inspire motivation and behavior change
BEHAVIORAL	FANS	SMS delivered messages to family members to improve social support

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-07-18
• Primary completion: 2019-12-02
• Completion: 2019-12-02
• First posted: 2017-06-07
• Last updated: 2021-08-06
• Results posted: 2021-08-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States