Effects of and satisfaction with short message service reminders for patient medication adherence: a randomized controlled study

Huang, Hsiu Ling; Li, Yu-Chuan; Chou, Yueh Ching; Hsieh, Yi‐Ting; Kuo, Frank C.; Tsai, Wen‐Chen; Chai, Sin-Kuo; Lin, Blossom Yen-Ju; Kung, Pei‐Tseng; Chuang, Chia Jung

doi:10.1186/1472-6947-13-127

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“…Nevertheless, the overwhelming majority of quantitative studies of smartphones, such as Strandbygaard, Thomsen, and Backer (2010), Petrie, Perry, Broadbent, and Weinman (2012), Huang et al (2013), andFinistis, Pellowski, andJohnson (2014), are forced to focus on the simplest intervention that smartphones permit-text message reminders. The comprehensive surveys by Vervloet et al (2012) and Sarabi, Sadoughi, Orak, and Bahaadinbeigy (2016) concluded that there is robust evidence that text message reminders improve medication adherence, especially in chronic conditions or in patient populations requiring complex medication regimens, such as HIV, asthma, and diabetes.…”

Section: Improving Medication Adherence: Smartphone Resultsmentioning

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Scaling for Economists: Lessons from the Non-Adherence Problem in the Medical Literature

Al‐Ubaydli

List

LoRe

et al. 2017

Journal of Economic Perspectives

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Economists often conduct experiments that demonstrate the benefits to individuals of modifying their behavior, such as using a new production process at work or investing in energy saving technologies. A common occurrence is for the success of the intervention in these small-scale studies to diminish substantially when applied at a larger scale, severely undermining the optimism advertised in the original research studies. One key contributor to the lack of general success is that the change that has been demonstrated to be beneficial is not adopted to the extent that would be optimal. This problem is isomorphic to the problem of patient non-adherence to medications that are known to be effective. The large medical literature on countermeasures furnishes economists with potential remedies to this manifestation of the scaling problem.

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Section: Improving Medication Adherence: Smartphone Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scaling for Economists: Lessons from the Non-Adherence Problem in the Medical Literature

Al‐Ubaydli

List

LoRe

et al. 2017

Journal of Economic Perspectives

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“…Studies on text messaging as a way to enhance adherence to medications for noncancer diseases have shown effectiveness (Arora, Peters, Agy, & Menchine, 2012;Foreman et al, 2012;Halpern, Lopez, Grimes, & Gallo, 2011;Hardy et al, 2011;Huang et al, 2013;Lester et al, 2010;Lewis et al, 2013;Mbuagbaw et al, 2013;Pellowski & Kalichman, 2012;Petrie, Perry, Broadbent, & Weinman, 2012;Pop-Eleches et al, 2011;Rodrigues et al, 2012;Vervloet, 2012). A detailed review of the evidence for text messaging is provided elsewhere in this supplement (Spoelstra & Sansoucie, 2015).…”

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confidence: 95%

Using Tools and Technology to Promote Education and Adherence to Oral Agents for Cancer

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Smudde

2015

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“…Previous studies on satisfaction regarding medication reminders and health care appointment reminders also has shown satisfaction and acceptance for text message reminders by the participants [35][36][37].…”

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Reminder use to improve service referral use among participants in a community engagement program (Preprint)

Varma¹,

Hart²,

McIntyre³

et al. 2018

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Background: Recent research on health care delivery has shown that mobile based interventions are effective in bringing behavior change among clinical populations. Mobile phone-based interventions are considered to be convenient and economical to the provider and non-invasive and hence acceptable to the receiver. Studies have also shown that personalized text message reminders are more acceptable and effective than automated mass messages. However, despite the increasing literature on mobile phone-based interventions (mHealth) contributing to improvement in health care, there is a dearth of information on the use of reminders for social and medical service referrals provided to nonclinical populations by community-engagement programs.Objective: This pilot study aimed to apply mobile phone-based interventions to improve the utilization rates of medical and social service referrals provided to community members by Community Health Workers (CHW's) through HealthStreet -a community engagement initiative at the University of Florida (UF).Methods: 300 eligible HealthStreet members were randomly assigned to CALLSONLY, TEXTONLY, CALLS+TEXT reminder intervention groups. Reminders were sent based on their assignment on the 15 th and 45 th day after the baseline assessment reminding them to utilize the medical and/or social referrals that were provided by the community health workers based on their expressed need during the baseline assessment. A telephonic follow up was done on the 30 th and 60 th day to assess the rate of utilization of the referrals. Further, a telephone based brief satisfaction survey was also administered to all participants on the 60 th day follow up call.Results: Out of 290 participants, 201 (69.3%) successfully completed the 30-day HealthStreet follow up and 149 (51.4%) participants successfully completed the 60-day HealthStreet follow up. At the 30-day follow up, 52 of the 201 respondents reported the use of at least one referral and there were no differences for utilization by contact status. At the 60-day follow up, 69 of the 149 participants reported utilizing at least one referral; there were no differences for this group either. Conclusions:Findings from this study did not find any significant difference in the rate of service referral utilization between participants who received different types of reminders. The absence of a significant difference between the two groups may be because of the smaller sample size of the study.

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Effects of and satisfaction with short message service reminders for patient medication adherence: a randomized controlled study

Cited by 51 publications

References 27 publications

Scaling for Economists: Lessons from the Non-Adherence Problem in the Medical Literature

Scaling for Economists: Lessons from the Non-Adherence Problem in the Medical Literature

Using Tools and Technology to Promote Education and Adherence to Oral Agents for Cancer

Reminder use to improve service referral use among participants in a community engagement program (Preprint)

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