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Take your medication

Medication adherence as the target behaviour.

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Studies (7)

  1. Paper

    Home reminder stickers and app quizzes built stronger self-care habits in adults with diabetes
    UsedHelped

    With home reminders and app quizzes, self-care felt more automatic after 12 weeks than with plain app lessons.

    Randomised trial of 293 adults with type 2 diabetes in China · vs plain app lessons on diabetes · they rated themselves

    UsedHelped

    With home reminders and app quizzes, people did their self-care on more days than with plain app lessons.

    Randomised trial of 293 adults with type 2 diabetes in China · vs plain app lessons on diabetes · they rated themselves

  2. Paper

    Daily texts and prize draws didn't clearly help people take blood-pressure pills
    UsedNo difference

    Daily text reminders, on top of a plan to take pills after a set routine, didn't clearly help pill-taking.

    Small randomised trial of 60 adults with high blood pressure in Los Angeles · vs usual care with the same leaflet and pill bottle · behaviour was recorded · ⚠ numbers unreliable; many people dropped out; summary claims more than the results show

    UsedNo difference

    Prize draws plus daily texts, for taking pills on time, didn't clearly help daily pill-taking compared with usual care.

    Small randomised trial of 60 adults with high blood pressure in Los Angeles · vs usual care with the same leaflet and pill bottle · behaviour was recorded · ⚠ numbers unreliable; many people dropped out; summary claims more than the results show

    UsedNo difference

    Daily text reminders didn't clearly help people take their pills within an hour of their chosen routine.

    Small randomised trial of 60 adults with high blood pressure in Los Angeles · vs usual care with the same leaflet and pill bottle · behaviour was recorded · ⚠ numbers unreliable; many people dropped out; summary claims more than the results show

    UsedNo difference

    Prize draws plus daily texts didn't clearly help people take their pills within an hour of their chosen routine.

    Small randomised trial of 60 adults with high blood pressure in Los Angeles · vs usual care with the same leaflet and pill bottle · behaviour was recorded · ⚠ numbers unreliable; many people dropped out; summary claims more than the results show

  3. Paper

    Ticking off daily pills in an app helped people finish treatment and get retested
    UsedHelped

    With an app to tick off daily pills, 95 in 100 took most doses, against 79 with standard advice.

    Randomised trial of 254 adults treated for a stomach infection in China · vs standard advice and two phone calls · behaviour was recorded

  4. Paper

    Health-worker visits and daily texts didn't help teens take their medicine more
    UsedNo difference

    Health-worker visits on goals and cues plus daily texts didn't help teens take their medicine more than usual care.

    Small randomised trial of 50 teens with sickle cell disease and their parents · vs teens who got their usual care · behaviour was recorded · ⚠ only a short summary available

  5. Paper

    Prize draws for taking most pills may have raised HIV pill-taking a little
    UsedMixed

    Prizes for taking at least 90 in 100 pills raised pill-taking slightly, though not clearly; prizes for showing up didn't.

    Randomised trial of 155 adults with HIV at a clinic in Uganda · vs usual clinic care with no prize draw · behaviour was recorded · ⚠ summary claims more than the results show; numbers unreliable; many people dropped out

    UsedNo comparison

    People who took pills at a set time, tied to an alarm or prayer, did better after prizes stopped.

    Randomised trial of 155 adults with HIV at a clinic in Uganda · no comparison group · behaviour was recorded · ⚠ summary claims more than the results show; numbers unreliable; many people dropped out

  6. Paper

    Home sessions made blood sugar checks feel a bit more automatic, but not pills
    UsedMixed

    Home talks on goals, habits and routines made blood sugar checks feel a bit more automatic, but not pills.

    Small randomised trial of 81 young adults with poorly controlled diabetes · vs a home visit, leaflets and phone calls · they rated themselves

  7. Paper

    Long-acting ADHD medicine helped children put things off less before school
    TestedHelped

    After 3 weeks, kids with ADHD on the medicine put things off less before school than kids on dummy pills.

    Randomised trial of 161 children aged 6 to 12 with ADHD · vs children who took a dummy pill · they rated themselves · ⚠ only a short summary available; groups weren't properly compared

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