Comparing Technological and Relational Approaches to Support Families After a Missed Well Child Visit

Sex: All

Ages: N/A – 17 Years

Healthy volunteers: No

Phase: NA

Enrollment: 3846

Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Location: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston-Salem North Carolina

Summary

The overall goal of this study is to compare the effectiveness of different follow up protocols for scheduled but not attended ("no-show") Well-Child Visits, relative to care-as-usual (no standardized or typical follow up procedure). The main goals are to: * Demonstrate feasibility of merging a new referral protocol following Well-Child visit no-show into existing health system Community Health Worker resources. * Compare Well-Child Visit attendance following no-show between patients randomized to care-as-usual (comparison), text message only (low-touch intervention), and community health worker outreach (high-touch intervention) groups. * Define the costs and cost-effectiveness of different follow-up protocols.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * Are 0-17 years * No-showed for a well-child visit scheduled at a family medicine or general pediatrics practice in Forsyth County, North Carolina * Have a phone number on record for a primary caregiver * With primary language for contact that is English or Spanish Exclusion Criteria: \- Already rescheduled their appointment by the time the sample list was generated

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT06686849). StuddyBuddy aggregates publicly available trial information.