Patient and Partner Feedback Reports to Improve Statin Medication Adherence: A Randomized Control Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Simple nudges such as reminders and feedback reports to either a patient or a partner may facilitate improved medication adherence.

Objective

To test the impact of a pill bottle used to monitor adherence, deliver a daily alarm, and generate weekly medication adherence feedback reports on statin adherence.

Design

Three-month, three-arm randomized clinical trial (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02480530).

Participants

One hundred and twenty-six veterans with known coronary artery disease and poor adherence (medication possession ratio <80 %).

Intervention

Patients were randomized to one of three groups: (1) a control group (n = 36) that received a pill-monitoring device with no alarms or feedback; (2) an individual feedback group (n = 36) that

SUBMITTER: Reddy A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5330995 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature