NCT01118208

Blister Packaging Medication to Increase Treatment Adherence and Clinical Response

Blister Packaging Medication to Increase Treatment Adherence and Clinical Response: Impact on Suicide-Related Morbidity and Mortality

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 303 (actual)
• Sponsor: VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This quantitative, interview-based study will determine if increased prescription medication adherence via blister pack administration will reduce suicide related behavior among the high risk population of patients discharged from a psychiatric inpatient unit. The aims of the project are to determine whether blister packaging medication significantly increases treatment adherence and if blister packaging significantly decreases intentional self-poisoning behavior (i.e., suicide attempts and completions). By tracking former psychiatric inpatients for 12 months post-discharge and obtaining monthly medication adherence ratings, we will determine if blister packaging (BP) medications leads to better adherence than dispensing as usual (DUA). The psychiatric patients we will be recruiting have been diagnosed with, major affective disorder, bipolar affective disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, or schizophrenia (or any combination of these diagnoses). By tracking former psychiatric patients for 12 months post-discharge and obtaining monthly reports (self-report and medical record review) of suicide-related behaviors, we will determine if patients in the BP condition have less intentional self-poisoning behavior than those in the DAU condition.

Conditions

• Medication Adherence
• Accidental Overdose
• Deliberate Overdose
• Suicide, Attempted

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Blister packaging medications	Dispensing prescription medications on pre-filled blister package cards.
OTHER	Dispense as usual	Dispensing prescription medications in standard pill bottles.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2014-06-01
• Completion: 2014-09-01
• First posted: 2010-05-06
• Last updated: 2017-10-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States