NCT04191876

Financial Incentives to Improve Medication Adherence

Financial Incentives to Improve Medication Adherence: a Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: Northwell Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Medication adherence is a challenge in all of medicine and is associated with multiple negative outcomes. Strategies to better measure and enhance adherence to medication are urgent and necessary to minimize unwanted health outcomes, hospitalizations, poorer quality of life and excessive costs for individuals, insurers and caregivers. Recently, behavioral economics-based approaches have emerged as a promising tool to address this unmet need, but its effectiveness in oral antipsychotic treatment remains to be assessed. For this project, investigators will use an app that offers financial incentives to increase compliance for patients with chronic diseases. Investigators intend to enroll 25 patients in a pilot project to assess feasibility of offering financial incentives to improve medication adherence in severe mental illness.

Conditions

• Schizophrenia
• Schizo Affective Disorder
• Bipolar Disorder
• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Wellth - Financial Incentives	Patients who are willing to participate will be offered financial incentives for medication adherence through an app (Wellth) over 10 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-11-01
• Primary completion: 2020-05-30
• Completion: 2022-03-02
• First posted: 2019-12-10
• Last updated: 2023-09-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States