NCT06229171

InTake Care: Development and Validation of an Innovative, Personalized Digital Health Solution for Medication Adherence Support in Cardiovascular Prevention

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 206 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Istituto Auxologico Italiano · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Inadequate medication adherence (MA) in chronic conditions, including cardiovascular prevention, represents an important risk factor. The use of new IT technologies in this setting is supposed to be useful to improve patients' adherence, but currently available solutions have significant limitations, including lack of personalization and reliance on expensive ad hoc systems. This interdisciplinary project aims to verify the hypothesis that in patients on chronic antihypertensive treatment MA can be improved through the implementation of a novel digital health solution for MA monitoring and support, based on inexpensive and user-friendly, commercially available technology (voice assistant), connected with web interface for the physician. The intervention will be personalized based on the creation of Personas, intended as multidisciplinary-based representations of different user types. This approach will be tested in a randomized clinical trial.

Conditions

• Hypertension
• Treatment Adherence and Compliance
• Digital Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	adherence support system based on a vocal assistant	Participants in the intervention group will receive a vocal assistant device and the instructions/support for the activation of the system at their homes. The device will remind the participant, at the times defined during set-up, which therapy should be taken and with what dosage. The participant will have 30 minutes from the first reminder to confirm vocally that the therapy has been taken, which will otherwise be considered as not having been taken. Participants in the control group will receive verbal advice from the physician about the need to follow the treatment recommendations and simple indications on possible solutions to maintain adherence, as by the usual practice of the Centre.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-10-01
• Primary completion: 2026-04-01
• Completion: 2026-04-01
• First posted: 2024-01-29
• Last updated: 2025-08-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy