Otorhinolaryngologic DiseasesNCT02453633
Theory Based SMS Reminders - Text's Impact on Patient Attendance
A study testing Emotional SMS text and Standard SMS text in people with Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases and Sleep Disorders, run by Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital.
Trial summary
The project will be done at the ear, nose and throat outpatient department at Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital (LDS) in 2015-2016. About 12% of patients with appointments at the surgical outpatient clinic at LDS do not attend their appointment even after receiving both letters and shot message service (SMS) reminders. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages Up to 80 years
- Conditions the study is for
- Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases, Sleep Disorders, Hearing Disorders
- What is being tested?
- Emotional SMS text and Standard SMS text
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 2,000 participants
- Where
- No sites listed yet
- Study dates
- May 2015to Aug 2015
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages Up to 80 years
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Patients (any diagnosis) with a scheduled clinic appointment at the LDS Ear, Nose and Throat Surgical Clinic or scheduled for polysomnography during the inclusion period.
- Date of birth on or after 01.01.1935
Who cannot join
- Patients with 2 appointments on the same day, only the first appointment will be included.
- Patients without a phone number
- Patients born before 01.01.1935
- Included patients will not be included again if they get a new appointment in the inclusion period.
Trial locations and contacts
No sites are listed yet.
About this study
The project will be done at the ear, nose and throat outpatient department at Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital (LDS) in 2015-2016. About 12% of patients with appointments at the surgical outpatient clinic at LDS do not attend their appointment even after receiving both letters and shot message service (SMS) reminders. Persuasion theory suggests that the SMS reminders may be more effective if the text appeals more to the patient's feelings. The project is designed as a randomized controlled trial in which the control group receives the standard text that has neutral content and the intervention group receives a more emotion-based SMS reminder. The aim is to determine whether the more emotional text reduces the proportion of patients who do not show up for their scheduled appointment at the surgical outpatient clinic.
Read the detailed description
Studies from Norway's Health South East (HSØ) show that the number of patients who do not attend their scheduled appointments account for 200 000 to 250 000 outpatient consultations each year. For comparison, there are 270,000 patients waiting for treatment. It has thus been recommended that regional health authorities take measures to reduce the number of patients who do not attend their scheduled appointment.
This study will evaluate whether short message service (SMS) appointment reminders that appeal to the patient's emotions are more effective for reducing non-attendance to scheduled outpatient appointments at the ear, nose, and throat outpatient clinic at Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital in Oslo, Norway. The study will be designed as randomized controlled trial in which 2000 patients are randomly assigned to either the intervention group (emotional SMS text) or the control group (standard SMS text with neutral content). Because theory suggests that emotion-based text messages will be more effective reminders, it is hypothesized that they will result in a 50% reduction in the number of patients who do not show for their appointment compared to the control group.
- Being tested
- Emotional SMS text, Standard SMS text
- Keywords
- Appointment reminder, Attendance, No-show
- Medical subject headings
- Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases, Sleep Wake Disorders, Hearing Disorders
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Emotional SMS textOther
SMS appointment reminder with the following text (translated from Norwegian):
Reminder about your appointment. There are many who are waiting for treatment. Please notify us if you can not make your appointment on: Tuesday 31 March at 10:00.
tel. 23225501 or send email to kirpolonh@lds.no later than one weekday prior to your appointment.
No-show fee: Kr. 640.
Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Department of Surgery, Ear, Nose and Throat. Do not reply to this message per SMS.
Standard SMS textOther
SMS appointment reminder with the following text (translated from Norwegian):
Reminder of appointment at Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Department of Surgery, Ear, Nose and Throat: Wednesday 11.feb 2015 at 10:00. For a change, call tel. 23225501 or send email to kirpolonh@lds.no. Do not reply to this message per SMS.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Emotional SMS text | Experimental | Patients in this arm will receive an emotion-based SMS reminder of their scheduled outpatient clinic appointment. Receives: Other: Emotional SMS text |
| Standard SMS text | Active comparator | Patients in this arm will receive the standard SMS reminder of their scheduled outpatient clinic appointment. Receives: Other: Standard SMS text |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Appointment attendance
Patient attendance at their scheduled clinic appointment (yes = show up at or before the scheduled time or reschedule at least 24 hours before appointment; no=does not show up by the appointed time).
Measured: Day of scheduled appointment
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted25 May 2015 (estimated)
- Study startMay 2015
- Primary completionAug 2015 (estimated)
- Study completionAug 2015 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Otorhinolaryngologic DiseasesStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Triple blind
- Who is masked
- Participant, Investigator, Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 2,000 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Bjørn Holm, MD, Study director, Lovisenberg Diakonale HospitalAnners Lerdal, RN, PhD, Principal investigator, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02453633
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- SMS-ENT
- Status last verified
- May 2015
- First submitted
- 21 May 2015
- Last updated
- 25 May 2015
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 25 May 2015. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Theory Based SMS Reminders - Text's Impact on Patient Attendance
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02453633
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- SMS-ENT
- Keywords
- Appointment reminder, Attendance, No-show
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 2,000 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Lovisenberg Diakonale HospitalUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- May 2015
- Primary completion
- Aug 2015 (estimated)
- Study completion
- Aug 2015 (estimated)
- First posted
- 25 May 2015 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The project will be done at the ear, nose and throat outpatient department at Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital (LDS) in 2015-2016. About 12% of patients with appointments at the surgical outpatient clinic at LDS do not attend their appointment even after receiving both letters and shot message service (SMS) reminders. Persuasion theory suggests that the SMS reminders may be more effective if the text appeals more to the patient's feelings. The project is designed as a randomized controlled trial in which the control group receives the standard text that has neutral content and the intervention group receives a more emotion-based SMS reminder. The aim is to determine whether the more emotional text reduces the proportion of patients who do not show up for their scheduled appointment at the surgical outpatient clinic.
Detailed description
Studies from Norway's Health South East (HSØ) show that the number of patients who do not attend their scheduled appointments account for 200 000 to 250 000 outpatient consultations each year. For comparison, there are 270,000 patients waiting for treatment. It has thus been recommended that regional health authorities take measures to reduce the number of patients who do not attend their scheduled appointment.
This study will evaluate whether short message service (SMS) appointment reminders that appeal to the patient's emotions are more effective for reducing non-attendance to scheduled outpatient appointments at the ear, nose, and throat outpatient clinic at Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital in Oslo, Norway. The study will be designed as randomized controlled trial in which 2000 patients are randomly assigned to either the intervention group (emotional SMS text) or the control group (standard SMS text with neutral content). Because theory suggests that emotion-based text messages will be more effective reminders, it is hypothesized that they will result in a 50% reduction in the number of patients who do not show for their appointment compared to the control group.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Triple blind (participant, investigator, outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Emotional SMS text | Experimental | Other: Emotional SMS textPatients in this arm will receive an emotion-based SMS reminder of their scheduled outpatient clinic appointment. |
| Standard SMS text | Active comparator | Other: Standard SMS textPatients in this arm will receive the standard SMS reminder of their scheduled outpatient clinic appointment. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- Up to 80 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (2 listed)
- Patients (any diagnosis) with a scheduled clinic appointment at the LDS Ear, Nose and Throat Surgical Clinic or scheduled for polysomnography during the inclusion period.
- Date of birth on or after 01.01.1935
Key exclusion criteria (4 listed)
- Patients with 2 appointments on the same day, only the first appointment will be included.
- Patients without a phone number
- Patients born before 01.01.1935
- Included patients will not be included again if they get a new appointment in the inclusion period.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Emotional SMS textSMS appointment reminder with the following text (translated from Norwegian): Reminder about your appointment. There are many who are waiting for treatment. Please notify us if you can not make your appointment on: Tuesday 31 March at 10:00. tel. 23225501 or send email to kirpolonh@lds.no later than one weekday prior to your appointment. No-show fee: Kr. 640. Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Department of Surgery, Ear, Nose and Throat. Do not reply to this message per SMS. | Other | Emotional SMS text |
| Standard SMS textSMS appointment reminder with the following text (translated from Norwegian): Reminder of appointment at Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Department of Surgery, Ear, Nose and Throat: Wednesday 11.feb 2015 at 10:00. For a change, call tel. 23225501 or send email to kirpolonh@lds.no. Do not reply to this message per SMS. | Other | Standard SMS text |
Primary outcome
Appointment attendance
Time frame: Day of scheduled appointment
Patient attendance at their scheduled clinic appointment (yes = show up at or before the scheduled time or reschedule at least 24 hours before appointment; no=does not show up by the appointed time).
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 25 May 2015.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Bjørn Holm, MD study director
Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital
Anners Lerdal, RN, PhD principal investigator
Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Emotional SMS text and Standard SMS text in people with Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases and Sleep Disorders, run by Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 2 inclusion and 4 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 25 May 2015. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
Results are not available in the source record.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Trude von Trepka (+47 23226862, trvt@lds.no), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Appointment attendance (time frame: Day of scheduled appointment). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 25 May 2015.