NCT03806140

Development and Evaluation of THRIVE

Proof-of-Concept of an Infrastructure for Text Messaging Interventions at CHOP: Development and Evaluation of THRIVE (Texting Health Resources to Inform, motiVate, and Engage)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 62 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Investigators will test the feasibility and acceptability, as well as efficacy (exploratory aim) of a text messaging intervention for Adolescents and young adults (AYA) transitioning off active treatment for cancer. Texting Health Resources to Inform, motiVate, and Engage (THRIVE) is intended to improve knowledge about health promotion and health vulnerability and importance of continued engagement in care, while also providing support and improving efficacy to achieve health-related goals.

Detailed description

Adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer are recognized as an understudied and underserved population in oncology. AYA engagement in ongoing disease management is compromised by lack of awareness of their continued health vulnerabilities and need for continued care, their desire to be "normal" and remove themselves from the cancer experience, and lack of AYA-appropriate support and services. Thus, AYA with cancer, especially those completing active treatment, are extremely vulnerable and in need of support to maintain remission and assure optimal health into adulthood. To address the immediate need for innovative interventions targeting AYA completing cancer treatment, the proposed study will test the efficacy, feasibility, and acceptability of a tailored text messaging intervention for AYA transitioning off active treatment called THRIVE (Texting Health Resources to Inform, motiVate, and Engage). A pilot randomized controlled trial testing the acceptability and feasibility (primary) and initial efficacy (secondary) of a health promoting mobile health texting intervention with AYA transitioning off active cancer treatment to follow-up care. The intervention compares a texting intervention to a receipt of an AYA survivorship handbook. Acceptability and feasibility are primary outcomes. Efficacy outcomes include measures of knowledge, healthcare utilization, adherence, engagement in care, and psychosocial well-being measures.

Conditions

• Oncology

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	text messages	receive about one health-related text message a day for 16 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-07-01
• Primary completion: 2016-01-01
• Completion: 2016-01-01
• First posted: 2019-01-16
• Last updated: 2019-01-16