The Support, Educate, Empower personalized glaucoma coaching trial design.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Glaucoma is a chronic disease that affects 3 million Americans. Glaucoma is most often asymptomatic until very late in its course when treatment is more difficult and extensive peripheral vision loss has already occurred. Taking daily medications can mitigate this vision loss, but at least half of people with glaucoma do not take their prescribed medications regularly. The purpose of this study is to improve glaucoma medication adherence among those with medically treated glaucoma and poor self-reported adherence using the Support, Educate, Empower personalized coaching program.

Methods/design

This study is a two-site randomized controlled trial enrolling 230 participants with poor self-reported glaucoma medication adherence. The trial has two arms, an interventio

SUBMITTER: Newman-Casey PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10023277 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature