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Using a Tailored Health Information Technology Driven Intervention to Improve Health Literacy and Medication Adherence

NCT02354040 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2017-12-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Although most patients admitted with acute coronary syndrome or acute ischemic stroke in South Asian countries receive these evidence-based treatments, their overall continuation in the outpatient phase of care remains low. Patient from Pakistan are uniquely challenged in this respect because the overall literacy rates remain one of the lowest in Pakistan among South Asian Countries. In addition, a great majority of Pakistani patients often do not understand or follow health prescriptions (which are still written in English). Additionally, due to an unregulated health industry, they frequently take multiple opinions and prescriptions from different physicians. The investigators propose to develop a "talking prescription" for patients with stroke or myocardial infarction for secondary prevention. This will enable them to understand their medications better, improve health literacy and adherence. This is an IT enabled health literacy intervention. Physicians will prescribe statin and/or antiplatelet to the selected patients and enter the necessary details on an Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheet.Patients will be assigned to either of the 2 arms--either regular care or talking prescriptions. Follow-up will be done at 3 months post recruitment for behavioral knowledge assessment and adherence assessment.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Talking Rx

For patients in the intervention group, the physician written prescription for anti-platelet and statin will be transferred on an OMR sheet and will be scanned. The information on the prescription (dose, name of the medication, duration, route or any other special instruction) will be sent to the patients via a text and a voice SMS (in Urdu language). The patients also receive an individualized code that helps them request for repeated reminders for their medication timings. However, a weekly medication reminder SMS will be sent to the patients in the intervention arm.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Baylor College of Medicine

    collaborator OTHER

  • Aga Khan University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-04-30
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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