Smartphone Message to Improve the Drug Compliance in Pregnant Women.
A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Use of Smartphone Message to Improve the Drug Compliance in Pregnant Women.
As technology advances, smartphones are now widely available and can provide a convenient and effective means to improve drug compliance by sending an electronic reminder on a regular basis. In a meta-analysis of 16 RCTs in assessing of drug compliance in chronic diseases, text message significantly improves medication compliance (OR, 2.11; 95% CI, 1.52-2.93; P < 0.001). The drug compliance improves from 50% to 67.8%, or an absolute increase of 17.8%. Further evaluation is required as most of these RCTs relies on self-reported compliance. This data may be not applicable to pregnant women and trial of using this approach to improve drug compliance during pregnancy is lacking.
The investigators hypothesize that the use of smartphone message will improve the drug compliance in pregnant women requiring long term medications. The investigators propose a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of smartphone message.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- All women age ≥ 18 years old
- Able to receive electronic reminder through smartphohne
- Gestational age less than 16 completed weeks as defined by pelvic ultrasound
- Part 1: Need to take aspirin or progesterone for prevention of pre-eclampsia or preterm birth respectively
- Part 2: Given multivitamin as health supplementation
Exclusion Criteria:
For Part 1:
- History of adverse reaction to aspirin
- History of adverse reaction to progesterone
- History of breast or genital tract malignancy
- History of suspected thromboembolic disease
- Congenital uterine anomaly
- Unwillingness or inability to comply with study procedures
- Known paternal or maternal abnormal karyotype
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Triple
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
|---|---|
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Experimental: Smartphone
Receive daily whatsapp/ SMS message remind the drug intake.
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Receive daily whatsapp/ SMS message to remind the drug intake
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No Intervention: Control
receive instruction to take the medication at recruitment
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
|
Compliance
Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 9months
|
number of tablet taken/ total number of tablets expected to take
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through study completion, an average of 9months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Anticipated)
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
Study Completion (Anticipated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- UW 19-552
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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