Text Messaging for Adherence in Adolescent Liver Transplant Recipients

Stanford University42 enrolled

Overview

Text message reminders will improve adherence to lab tests in adolescent liver transplant recipients.

Adolescent patients who received a liver transplant will be recruited to participate in receiving text message reminders for lab tests. They will be send de-identified messages according to their required lab schedule. The investigators will monitor their adherence to lab tests as well as medication and clinic visits. They will also have a questionnaire about their medical regimen before and at the end of the study.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Liver Transplant Adherence

Interventions

Text Message ReminderBEHAVIORAL

Sent TM reminder at beginning and end of each month that corresponded to required lab frequency. Patients were able to send autoresponses.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 12 YearsMax age: 25 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Patient \>12 years * Received liver transplant * Followed by Stanford Liver Transplant Team Exclusion Criteria: * No personal cell phone

Locations (1)

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

Palo Alto, California, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Adherence to lab tests

Time frame: One year

Secondary Outcomes

Texting responses

Correspondence between actual completion of tests versus reported

Time frame: 1 year

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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