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Use of a Smartphone Application to Increase Adherence to Medical Treatment in Patients With an Acute Coronary Syndrome.

NCT03766789 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2018-12-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

ADHERENCE is a randomized unicentric study that will be carried out from a monovalent center of cardiology of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Patients will be randomized hospitalization for acute coronary syndromes (ACS) with and without ST segment elevation at the time of hospital discharge to receive access to a digital application for smartphones or receive written instructions regarding the taking of medication as prescribed by doctors . They will have a total follow-up period of 90 days, in which the adherence to medical treatment will be evaluated through a questionnaire validated for that purpose.

The objective of the study is to demonstrate that the use of a digital platform for smartphones increases the adherence to medical treatment by 30% in relation to the group without intervention

Conditions

  • Adherence, Medication

Interventions

DEVICE

Cell phone application

cell phone to organize medications

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Juan P Costabel, MD · Chief of coronary care unit

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
99 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-06-12
Primary Completion
2018-11-27
Completion
2019-01-27

Countries

  • Argentina

Study Locations

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