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Patient Centered Health Technology Medication Adherence Program for African American Hypertensives
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating SMASH and Enhanced SC for Hypertension and Medication Non-Adherence. Completed, enrolled 204 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
This will be a two--arm Randomized controlled trial (RCT) design that will assess efficacy of the Smartphone Medication Adherence Stops Hypertension (SMASH) mobile health ( mHealth) program compared to an enhanced standard care (SC) program. Participants will be African-American (AA) hypertension patients with no other known chronic diseases. Participants found to have uncontrolled hypertension (HTN) and medication non-adherence via electronic device monitoring will be randomized to SMASH or enhanced Standard Care (SC). The SMASH group will receive reminders in the form of auditory and visual reminders from a pill monitoring device when their medication dose is due, they will monitor their blood pressure at home and will receive tailored motivational text messages based upon levels of adherence . Enhanced SC group will use the pill monitoring device without reminder functions enabled and will receive text messages on topics of healthy lifestyles not related to medication adherence and hypertension. The active intervention will continue for 6 months and follow-up will continue for 1 year.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Auditory and visual reminders are active on Pill device will alert subject each time their medication dose is due. Pill device will transmit dose taken time stamps to researchers. Text message the following morning with tailored motivational messages that reflect the medication dose adherence from the preceding day. Subjects will monitor their BP at home at least every third day using Bluetooth monitor linked to smartphone to transmit encrypted readings to researchers.
Auditory and visual reminders are inactive on Pill device. Pill device will transmit dose taken times to researchers. Healthy lifestyle test messages as attention control.