Identifying Barriers and Strategies to Support Self-efficacy for Medication Adherence With Text Messaging

Vanderbilt University

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Sickle Cell Disease

Treatments: Other: Interviews and Surveys

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02785848

160750

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will explore barriers to improving self-efficacy, or the ability to feel in control of their disease, and medication adherence with text messaging through surveys and interviews with adolescents and adults with SCD cared for at the Vanderbilt Meharry Center of Excellence (VMCE) in Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). The investigators will identify preferences to improve and sustain adherence to daily medication through selection of investigator-proposed or patient-generated text messaging strategies. Finally, the investigators will fill in the literature gaps by describing barriers to self-efficacy and medication adherence among adults with SCD as well as adolescents with SCD who are transitioning to adult care.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Receiving care at the VUMC/Matthew Walker clinic
2. Diagnosed with SCD, asthma, or both
3. Currently taking daily medications for SCD, such as hydroxyurea, asthma, or both
4. Having access to a mobile telephone and/or computer
5. Age 12-70 years

Exclusion criteria

1. Unable to perform interviews or surveys

Trial design

70 participants in 1 patient group

Asthma and/or Sickle Cell Anemia

Description:

The investigators will examine patients with sickle cell disease, asthma, or both who are aged 12-70 years who take daily medications.

Treatment:

Other: Interviews and Surveys