Self-report data about patients' lifestyles (diet, exercise, smoking, alcohol consumption and medication adherence) and information on illness and medication beliefs were provided from postal questionnaire (1084 patients responded; 69% response rate).
Medication adherence and information on quality of life (QoL) will be monitored periodically.
This latter problem is particularly relevant in mobile health services supporting behaviors such as medication adherence, since information from SMS adherence messages hopefully affects patients' adherence not only the day the message was received but also the patient's long-term ability to self-manage their chronic disease.
We performed an analysis of medication adherence using information collected in a larger cross-sectional cohort study [ 9] of patients scheduled for primary care visits with 92 primary care providers at 9 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities of varied sizes in 3 mid-western states.
To construct these adherence measures, we assessed refill-based medication adherence linking prescribing information from clinical encounter data and pharmacy claims for dispensed data.
Goal of the current study is to assess the effectiveness of a patient-tailored, telephone-based intervention by a pharmacist at the start of pharmacotherapy aimed at improving medication adherence, satisfaction with information and counselling and the beliefs about medicines.
A total of 72% of the apps had tracking function, 22% had tools to enhance medication adherence, 37% contained general information on HTN, and 8% contained information on Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet.
Second, the use of self-reports in assessing medication adherence is subject to information (recall) bias.
The ability to identify time points when divergence with respect to medication adherence occurs is important information for clinicians working to support patients' adherence over time and for developing more effective system-level interventions.
After obtaining demographic data and information on the general health status from each participant, information of medication adherence was obtained using the validated Morisky Adherence Scale-8 (MMAS-8).
