NCT02241863

The Effect of a Theory Based Educational Intervention on Medication Adherence to and Removes of Related Barriers in Patients With Bipolar Disorder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 270 (actual)
• Sponsor: Qazvin University Of Medical Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Despite an increasing pharmacopoeia of effective medications for the treatment of bipolar disorder, patient outcomes continue to be impacted by treatment adherence. Non-adherence to treatments is also a major obstacle in translating efficacy in research settings into effectiveness in clinical practice. Non-adherence with bipolar disorder (BD) medication treatment dramatically worsens outcomes. Reasons for non-adherence among individuals with BD are multi-dimensional, and it has been suggested that a multifaceted intervention will be more effective. The study is aimed to assess the effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention on enhancing medications adherence in patients with bipolar disorders.

Conditions

• Patients With Bipolar Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Multifaceted intervention	Supportive intervention: care giver, health care providers, and patient's family members (including disease knowledge, treatment t of the disease, medication problems or adverse effects, the importance of medication adherence, supervision taking medications by the patients as prescribed). patient education: about the disease and treatment, consuming regularly the pills motivational intervening, self-monitoring planning. Patients will attend in five motivational interviewing sessions regularly to facilitating and engaging intrinsic motivation within the patients in order to change medication adherence behavior.
BEHAVIORAL	Routine counseling

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-09-01
• Primary completion: 2015-09-01
• First posted: 2014-09-16
• Last updated: 2023-01-11

Locations

10 sites across 1 country: Iran