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Medication Adherence in Older Adults With Serious Mental Illness

NCT00224380 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 72

Last updated 2009-09-23

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Summary

The goal of this pilot study is to learn about how well older people with serious mental illness (including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression) follow prescribed medication regimens, and to evaluate a manualized intervention designed to enhance medication management skills and adherence, the Using Medications Effectively program. The following four hypotheses will be tested:

1. Medication adherence will be associated with several variables including insight, memory, medication management skill, knowledge about medications, attitudes about medications.
2. People who receive the program will have better medication adherence compared to those who do not receive the program as measured by pill counts.
3. People who receive the program will develop better medication management skills compared to those who do not receive the program.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Using Medications Effectively

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Janssen, LP

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression

    collaborator OTHER

  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sarah I Pratt, PhD · Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-07-31
Completion
2005-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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