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CompletedNCT02320422

Adult Liver Transplant Enhanced Care

An Intervention to Improve Adherence to Medications in Adults With Liver Transplants

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
8 (actual)
Sponsor
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to pilot-test a tailored telemetric intervention to improve adherence to medications in adults who had a liver transplant and are presently non-adherent (as measured by tacrolimus levels).

Detailed description

Adult patients who received a liver transplant and for whom there are at least 3 tacrolimus blood levels within the last year are eligible for the study. Patients will be recruited from amongst the roster of liver transplant recipients treated at the Recanati-Miller Transplant Institute at Mount Sinai. The intervention will be pilot-tested on up to 15 non-adherent patients. Patients will be identified using an innovative biomarker for non-adherence-by calculating the degree of fluctuation between individual medication blood levels. The telemetric intervention (administered via telephone, or interactive video chat applications such as FaceTime ® or Skype ®) will enable the intervention team (IT) to address non-adherence from a remote location, using a structured, tailored approach that accommodates specific patient needs. The approach includes a focus on psychological avoidance.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
BEHAVIORALBehavioral TelehealthThe telemetric intervention (administered via telephone, or interactive video chat applications such as FaceTime ® or Skype ®) will enable the intervention team (IT) to address non-adherence from a remote location, using a structured, tailored approach

Timeline

Start date
2015-01-01
Primary completion
2016-08-01
Completion
2016-08-01
First posted
2014-12-19
Last updated
2016-12-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02320422. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.