NCT02480530

Using Feedback Reports to Improve Medication Adherence

Evaluating Individual and Patient-Selected Family/Friend/or Reciprocal Peer Notifications to Improve Statin Medication Adherence Among Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 126 (actual)
• Sponsor: Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 30 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research study is to improve statin medication adherence among Veterans with coronary artery disease with poor adherence to medications. The investigators are testing if newer technology pill bottle devices linked with individual feedback and/or social incentive strategies can improve medication taking behavior.

Detailed description

Patients with coronary artery disease and previous poor adherence to statin medications will be recruited at Philadelphia VA Medical Center. Enrolled participants will be randomly assigned to one of three arms: 1. Control Group 2. Individual Alarm device and feedback report 3. Individual plus patient-selected Feedback Friend report Patients will be given a medication-monitoring device (Vitality GlowCaps) to monitor the statin medication that is being currently prescribed by their primary care physician. In first group, the control arm (Arm 1), the device reminders will be turned off but the device will continue recording adherence to the medications. In second group, reminder arm (Arm 2), the device will be programmed as an alarm that will be activated if the patient does not take the medication at the time set by the patient. In addition the patient will get a weekly report of his/her adherence. In the third group, patient-selected family/friend/or reciprocal peer feedback arm (Arm 3), in addition to the activation of the alarm function the device will be linked to a weekly report on adherence to medications. This report will be delivered to the patient and to the patient identified family/friend/ or reciprocal peer.

Conditions

• Coronary Artery Disease
• Adherence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Individual Feedback	Patient gets feedback reports on adherence weekly.
BEHAVIORAL	Feedback Friend	In addition to individual feedback reports this information will be sent to an assigned family/friend or reciprocal peer.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-01
• Primary completion: 2015-09-03
• Completion: 2015-09-03
• First posted: 2015-06-24
• Last updated: 2018-01-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States