Key result
A medication adherence support intervention prompts patient recommendations for highly interactive messages to report adherence.
Why the study?
No tailored intervention using text and voice messages to improve medication adherence has been developed in the UK primary-care setting.
A tailored text and voice message intervention for medication adherence in hypertension and diabetes requires highly interactive features to be acceptable to patients in deprived UK neighborhoods.
Patient input may guide UK text/voice adherence support for hypertension or diabetes; leaves open clinical effectiveness.
Tailored interventions delivered via text and voice messages can improve adherence to multiple medications. However, no such intervention has been developed in the UK primary-care setting. We conducted focus groups with 12 patients with hypertension, type 2 diabetes, or both conditions, presumed to be non-adherent and recruited from deprived neighborhoods, to assess the acceptability and inform the development of an intervention to provide ongoing support for adherence, as an adjunct to primary-care consultations. Patients recommended ways to improve the tailored content and delivery of the intervention; like highly interactive messages to report both medication taking and determinants of medication adherence.
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Kassavou et al. (2018) studied Hypertension, type 2 diabetes, or both (n=12). Medication Adherence for Patients Support intervention was evaluated on Acceptability and development of an intervention to provide ongoing support for adherence. The Medication Adherence for Patients Support intervention was evaluated by 12 patients, who recommended highly interactive messages to report medication taking and determinants of adherence.
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