Daily Short Message Service Reminders Increase Treatment Compliance and Efficacy in Outpatients with Functional Dyspepsia: a Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many outpatients with functional dyspepsia (FD) do not follow the medication schedule recommendations, which can lead to illness relapse.

Objective

To investigate whether short message service (SMS) reminders improve medication regimen adherence and therapeutic efficacy in outpatients with FD.

Design

Participants with FD were randomly allocated to the control group or intervention group. Patients in the control group received a 4-week medication treatment with no reminders, those in the intervention group received medication treatment plus a daily SMS reminder of dose and medication time.

Participants

Newly diagnosed FD patients from April 2019 to June 2019 were recruited from the GI outpatient clinics at Renji Hospital.

Measurements

The score

SUBMITTER: Wang B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7572925 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature