NCT03794648

The Effectiveness of a Mobile Interactive Supervised Therapy (MIST) Intervention for Improving Adherence to HIV Medication

The Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of a Mobile Interactive Supervised Therapy (MIST) Intervention for Improving Medication Adherence of Patients With HIV Infection: a Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: National University Hospital, Singapore · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A total of 40 HIV infected patients will be randomly assigned into intervention or control group. Participants in the intervention group will use an smart phone application for two months. Participants will receive reminder notifications and use the app to take and send videos of themselves taking the pill(s), uploaded videos will be centrally reviewed by a study nurse . Control group participants will receive standard care. Antiretroviral Therapy adherence will be measured by self-report, pill count, and smart bottle as well as the App. Participants' perceptions of app using experience will be recorded via face to face interview.

Conditions

• HIV-infection/Aids

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mobile Interactive Supervised Therapy (MIST)	MIST system will send a reminder notification (via push or SMS) to participants 10 to 15 minutes before the scheduled time for taking their medication. Participants will then activate the recording function of the MIST app on their phone, and record themselves taking their medication.Participants will be asked to go through a series of steps for recording the video.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-02-13
• Primary completion: 2018-11-30
• Completion: 2018-12-31
• First posted: 2019-01-07
• Last updated: 2019-01-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Singapore