Efficacy of a Intervention to Reduce Medication Errors and Improve Adherence (ATEM-AP)

Andalusian Health Service

Status: Completed

Conditions: Medication Adherence; Patient Compliance

Treatments: Behavioral: Motivational interview

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01291966

PI-0101/2008

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that an intervention based on the motivational interview directed to patients with polypharmacy to improve the Therapeutic Adherence and to reduce the errors of Medication in major measure that the habitual intervention.

Enrollment: 154 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with polypharmacy (5 or more medicines)
• That detects to them a problem of Therapeutic Adherence
• That agree to take part in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Immobilized patients or with an index of Barthel lower than 60 points
• Incapable to fulfill ABVD
• Patients with cognitive deterioration
• Patients with diagnosis of ictus in the last 6 months
• That has been admitted to hospital 2 or more times in the last year Institutionalized patients

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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154 participants in 1 patient group

Motivational interview

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivational interview