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Piloting an Intervention for Improving Treatment Adherence

NCT02250235 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 89

Last updated 2014-09-26

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Summary

Helping patient with long-term conditions to make informed decisions about adherence to their treatment is an important element in facilitating self-management. Estimates of non-adherence to treatment in people living with long-term conditions are typically high, averaging at around 50%.This not only impacts negatively on patient outcomes but also places a significant financial burden on healthcare provision.

While clinical efforts have focused on promoting patient self-management, with some success, work in Psychology on behaviour change has had little influence on clinical practice. In this project, the team wish to evaluate the potential for a novel intervention from the behaviour change literature, self-affirmation, to promote improved fluid control among non-adherent patients. The intervention works by promoting a patient's sense-of-self (self-affirmation), which has been shown to modify the patient's acceptance of health-risk information, their self-efficacy, their intention to change, and subsequently their behaviour.

A randomised controlled pilot trial is proposed. The trial is designed to build upon routine education about fluid control during dialysis visits, and will compare a group of patients who have received an intervention to boost their sense-of-self (self-affirmation arm) to a control group (control arm). Patients in the self-affirmation arm should have a more positive evaluation of the health-risk information about fluid management, feel more able to, and intend to change their fluid control behaviour, and subsequently have lower interdialytic weight gain.

Conditions

  • Kidney Failure, Chronic

Interventions

OTHER

Health risk information

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Hertfordshire

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-11-30
Primary Completion
2013-03-31
Completion
2014-02-28

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