Patient Experience during the Support, Educate, Empower Glaucoma Coaching Program to Improve Medication Adherence: A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To understand patients' qualitative experiences with the Support, Educate, Empower (SEE) personalized glaucoma coaching program, provide a richer understanding of the components of the intervention that were useful in eliciting behavior change, and understand how to improve the SEE Program.

Design

A concurrent mixed-methods process analysis.

Participants

Thirty-nine patients with a diagnosis of any kind of glaucoma or ocular hypertension who were aged ≥40 years, were taking ≥1 glaucoma medication, spoke English, self-administered their eye drops, and had poor glaucoma medication adherence (defined as taking ≤80% of prescribed medication doses assessed via electronic medication adherence monitors) who completed the 7-month SEE Program.

Methods

All partic

SUBMITTER: Hollenhorst CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7532982 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul - Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature