Efficacy of Automated Text Messaging Services

NCT ID: NCT05621265

Last Updated: 2022-11-21

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 20 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-10-01
• Study Completion Date: 2022-05-01

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test automated text messaging as an effective behavior change intervention in physical therapy patients. The main purpose of this study was to trial sleep hygiene education for improving physical therapy patients' sleep through the use of daily automated text messaging. Researchers will compare two groups to see if the intervention group which consisted of participants getting daily automated text messages for sleep hygiene tips would be effective in improving sleep, health, pain, and function compared to a group that is receiving traditional physical therapy alone.

Detailed Description

Participants will be recruited from the outpatient physical therapy clinic verbally by their therapist and by an informational handout they receive from the therapist. The student researcher (who also works at this clinic) will then contact the participant to set up a time to complete the initial survey questions at the clinic in a private treatment room. During the initial visit, participants will read through and sign informed consent explaining the procedures and expectations of them during the study. The participants will then complete the following questionnaires: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Sleep Hygiene Index, Medical Outcome Survey-sleep 9, Perceived Stress Scale, Numeric Pain Rating Scale, and Patient Specific Functional Scale. The participants will randomly be assigned to one of two groups. The intervention group will receive daily automated text messages scheduled for 8:00 pm every evening. The text messages will include a variety of sleep hygiene behavioral tips for the participant to try. This will last for a total of four weeks. The control group will not receive any intervention during this time frame. Following the four weeks, student researchers will return to each participant's clinic to collect the same data that was collected at the initial visit. Each participant will have a total of 2 sessions to complete with each session taking approximately 15-30 minutes to complete.

Conditions

Sleep; Physical Therapy

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Intervention

Automated Text messaging for sleep behavior change

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Automated Text messaging

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

daily text message

Control

Control, Traditional physical therapy only

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Automated Text messaging

daily text message

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Adults 18 years and older seeking outpatient Physical Therapy

Exclusion Criteria

Inability to access a smart-phone or computer

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Black Hills State University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Ashley Pfeiffer, DPT

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Black Hills State University

Locations

Black Hills Physical Therapy

Spearfish, South Dakota, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

BlackHillsSTATE

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id