"A Randomized, Controlled, Evaluator-blinded Pilot Study to Evaluate the Effect of Automated Text Message Reminders on Patient Compliance With Topical Medications and Its Efficacy on Skin Disease Control in Adolescents and Adults With Mild to Moderate Acne"
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Brief summary
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The purpose of this study is to determine whether an automated electronic reminder system using text messages sent to patient's cell phones will help patients with acne be more compliant with their topical medications and lead to an improvement of their acne. Hypothesis: Automatically delivered electronic reminders in the form of text messages will increase acne patient adherence to topical medications and consequently result in better treatment outcome and higher patient satisfaction
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT01082523
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 40 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 12 Years to 30 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Feb 2010 (Type not available)
- Primary completion
- Oct 2010 (Actual)
- Completion
- Oct 2010 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Sep 17, 2019
2010
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas - Dermatology Clinical Trials | Dallas | Texas | 75390-8802 | — |
| Department of Dermatology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas | Texas | 75390 | — |
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