NCT04703439

An mHealth Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence and Health Outcomes

A Mobile Phone Based Medication Reminder Program for Patients With Coronary Heart Diseases: A Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 230 (actual)
• Sponsor: Duke University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Investigators evaluated the efficacy of a pilot-tested mHealth intervention to improving medication adherence and health outcomes among patients with coronary heart disease.

Detailed description

This was a two-arm parallel randomized controlled trial, in which 116 and 114 participants were assigned to the experimental and control groups, respectively. The mHealth intervention in this study had been pilot tested and tailored. Specifically, the experimental group received a medication-taking reminder every morning via WeChat app and educational materials of coronary heart disease and medication adherence every five days via Message Express app. The control group received only general educational materials, which were irrelevant to coronary heart disease or medication adherence, every 5 days via Message Express app. All participants were diagnosed with coronary heart disease. The specific recruitment criteria of participants had been published in peer-reviewed journal.

Conditions

• Coronary Heart Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Medication-taking reminders & educational materials	The intervention has been described in arm/group descriptions, which lasted for 60 days for each participants.
BEHAVIORAL	Educational materials	The intervention has been described in arm/group descriptions, which lasted for 60 days for each participants.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-05-20
• Primary completion: 2018-12-31
• Completion: 2018-12-31
• First posted: 2021-01-11
• Last updated: 2023-04-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China