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A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Text Messages to Improve Well-Child Visit Attendance After No-Show.

Beata Debinski, Stephanie S Daniel, Joseph Rigdon, Andrew Mayfield, Tiffany Tzintzun, Katherine A Poehling

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Trial report in Academic pediatrics. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05086237 (Text Message Follow-up for Patients Who Have Missed Well-Child Visits), which is not on this map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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NCT05086237 nacompletednot on this map

Text Message Follow-up for Patients Who Have Missed Well-Child Visits: Randomized Controlled Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorWake Forest University Health SciencesRan2022 to 2022Enrolled739ConditionsChild Health, Text MessagingArmsText message reminders
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6 authors.

Beata DebinskiDepartment of Family and Community Medicine (B Debinski, SS Daniel, and A Mayfield), Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC. Electronic address: bdebinsk@wakehealth.edu.
Stephanie S DanielDepartment of Family and Community Medicine (B Debinski, SS Daniel, and A Mayfield), Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC.
Joseph RigdonDepartment of Biostatistics and Data Science (J Rigdon), Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC.
Andrew MayfieldDepartment of Family and Community Medicine (B Debinski, SS Daniel, and A Mayfield), Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC.
Tiffany TzintzunPublic Health Corps (T Tzintzun), Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC.
Katherine A PoehlingDepartment of Pediatrics (KA Poehling), Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC.

Funding

Wake Forest Clinical and Translational Science AwardUL1TR001420 · NCATS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ARD, JAMY D, FOLEY, KRISTIE L · 2015 to 2023
$32.3M
Yale University Clinical and Translational Science Award ProgramUL1TR000142 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SHERWIN, ROBERT S · 2012 to 2015
$31.8M
J. NRSA Training Core (TL1)TL1TR003136 · NCATS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI TOOZE, JANET A. · 2019 to 2023
$2.1M
NCATS NIH HHS TL1 TR003136NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000142NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001420
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveEvaluate the effectiveness of text messages to systematically engage parents/guardians ("caregivers") to reschedule a well-child visit (WCV) that was missed ("no-show") and attend that rescheduled WCV visits.

methodsPatients <18 years in one of five pediatrics or family medicine clinics, in one health system in the Southeast US, were eligible. Patients without a rescheduled WCV after a no-show were randomized into intervention (text messages) or care-as-usual comparison, stratified by language (English/Spanish). Enrollment occurred May-July 2022. Up to three text messages were sent to caregivers one week apart via REDCap and Twilio, advising how to reschedule the missed appointment by phone or health portal. Primary outcomes were 1) rescheduling a WCV within 6 weeks of no-show and 2) completing a rescheduled WCV within 6 weeks. Risk differences (RD) and odds ratios (OR) were used to evaluate the effect of text messages.

resultsSeven hundred and twenty patients were randomized and analyzed (texts: 361, comparison: 359). The proportion rescheduling WCV after text versus usual care was English: 18.85% versus 15.02%, respectively, and Spanish: 5.94% versus 8.14%, with overall RD+ 1.98% (95% CI: -1.85, 5.81) and OR 1.21 (95% CI: 0.79, 1.84; P-value .38). Completed WCV rates in text or usual care were English: 13.08% versus 6.59%, and Spanish: 5.81% versus 5.94% with texts associated with RD+ 2.83% (95% CI: 1.66, 4.00) and OR 1.86 (95% CI: 1.09, 3.19).

conclusionText message follow-up after a no-show WCV may positively impact attendance at WCVs rescheduled in the subsequent 6 weeks.

trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT05086237.

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Text MessagingAdolescentAppointments and SchedulesChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansInfantMaleNo-Show PatientsParentsPilot ProjectsReminder Systemshealth care utilizationrandomized controlled trialSpanish languagetext messageswell-child visit

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PMID38852906
PMCPMC11620819

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