Effect of Reminders on Adherence

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension; Diabetes

Treatments: Behavioral: Reminder; Behavioral: Commitment mailing; Behavioral: Anonymity; Behavioral: Identification; Behavioral: Prediction mailing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02411006

H14P001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators seek to increase medication adherence of subjects. The investigators will send mailings to customers of an insurance company, asking them to predict or commit to a certain level of behavior. The investigators will measure whether this increases medication adherence.

Full description

The investigators seek to increase medication adherence of subjects. The investigators will send mailings to customers of an insurance company, asking them to predict or commit to a certain level of behavior. The investigators will measure whether this increases medication adherence. The investigators will send mailings to subjects once per month, and elicit responses via mail, phone, and web surveys.

Enrollment: 47,088 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• customers of the investigators' insurance company partner

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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47,088 participants in 6 patient groups

Usual care control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention, just usual care from the insurance company

Reminder control

Experimental group

Description:

Send a reminder to subjects every month

Treatment:

Behavioral: Reminder

Anonymous prediction

Experimental group

Description:

Ask subjects to anonymously predict their upcoming medication adherence

Treatment:

Behavioral: Anonymity

Behavioral: Prediction mailing

Behavioral: Reminder

Anonymous commitment

Experimental group

Description:

Ask subjects to anonymously commit to their upcoming medication adherence

Treatment:

Behavioral: Anonymity

Behavioral: Commitment mailing

Behavioral: Reminder

Identified prediction

Experimental group

Description:

Ask subjects to predict their upcoming medication adherence and report it

Treatment:

Behavioral: Prediction mailing

Behavioral: Identification

Behavioral: Reminder

Identified commitment

Experimental group

Description:

Ask subjects to commit to their upcoming medication adherence and report it

Treatment:

Behavioral: Identification

Behavioral: Commitment mailing

Behavioral: Reminder