NCT05286944

Mobile Phone Daily Alarm To Improve Compliance Of Intranasal Corticosteroid Among Allergic Rhinitis Patients.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 207 (actual)
• Sponsor: National University of Malaysia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 66 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a randomized controlled trial to compare the compliance of allergic rhinitis patients towards intranasal steroids between those who use mobile daily alarm reminder and those who do not.

Detailed description

In this single blinded RCT, adults with allergic rhinitis are randomized into either he intervention or control arm. The intervention involves installing an alarm with a prerecorded nmessage "Have you take your intranasal steroids" which will automatically ring every day on the patients mobile phone. The control arm do not have any alarm set up. Both groups are offered counseling and education regarding the importance of compliance to intranasal steroid upon recruitment. Daily reminder to take medication may eliminate reason for forgetting medication schedule, hence, improve compliance towards INCS among patients with allergic rhinitis. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of using daily mobile alarm on patient's compliance towards INCS.

Conditions

• Rhinitis, Allergic
• Compliance, Medication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mobile phone alarm reminder	Patients are reminded to take their INCS using a mobile phone alarm set to ring daily

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-19
• Primary completion: 2022-06-22
• Completion: 2022-06-22
• First posted: 2022-03-18
• Last updated: 2022-03-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Malaysia