Text-messages to communicate with young people involved in primary care research: a randomised controlled trial

Text-messages to communicate with young people involved in primary care research: a randomised controlled trial to determine response rate using this method

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12605000020684

Enrollment

400

Registered

2005-07-18

Start date

2004-08-07

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

To assess whether text-messaging on mobile phones can be used to communicate with young patients involved in primary care research without affecting the response rate that would be expected from using more traditional research methods such filling out a card and dropping it into a box placed in the practice

Interventions

Use of text-messaging to obtain additional research data from patients following the consultation.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Educational / counselling / training

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

16 Years to 24 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients attending randomly selected general practices in Victoria

Exclusion criteria

Any condition that might impair on the ability to consent: acute medical condition requiring immediate attention by GP, known schizophrenia or chronic psychosis, organic mental disorder, mental disability, presence of severe language or hearing disability, insufficient understanding of English for interview without a translator). In addition, patients who do not have a mobile phone will be excluded.

Outcome results