Promoting Medication Adherence Among Older Adults With Hypertension
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Conditions studied: Hypertension
In brief
Over 70% of US adults 65 or older are diagnosed with hypertension, the leading cause of cardiovascular disease and premature deaths in the world. Despite availability of effective drugs to control blood pressure, uncontrolled blood pressure and low adherence to antihypertensive drugs persist as major public health and clinical challenges. On average, 50% of adults adhere to chronic disease medications and lower levels of adherence are associated with worse blood pressure control and adverse outcomes. Many barriers to adherence are well known and have been targeted in interventions to improve medication adherence. As of yet, no single intervention has emerged as superior or even particularly effective in improving adherence. The investigators have recently identified unconscious, self-protective 'hidden motives' that contribute to nonadherence to chronic disease medications. There is a critical need to expand on this insight to test the potential for targeting individuals' 'hidden motives' for low adherence using an innovative learning process called Immunity-to-Change. As a critical step in testing this intervention to target these 'hidden motives', the investigators will undertake a pilot study to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the Overcoming Immunity-to-Change intervention and determine effect sizes of the intervention on adherence, blood pressure (BP) control, and quality of life (QOL). The investigators will test the Immunity-to-Change intervention in a sample of nonadherent older adults with hypertension (n=18). Another sample of nonadherent older adults with hypertension will be monitored for comparison (n=18).
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02846220
- Run by
- Tulane University School of Medicine
- People needed
- 36
- Starts
- 2016-10-01
- Expected to finish
- 2019-12-30
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-10-20
Who can join
Age: 55 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Men and women ages 55 and older, with the goal of a sex- and race-balanced sample
- Diagnosis of essential hypertension
- Uncontrolled hypertension
- Current treatment with antihypertensive medication
- Low antihypertensive pharmacy refill
- English speaking
- Telephone access
- Ability to read print on a computer screen and use the computer keyboard
- Written consent to participate and HIPAA authorization
- Written acceptance of study contract
- Approval of health care provider
You may not qualify if…
- Cognitive impairment
- Enrollment in another clinical trial
Where it is running
- Tulane University — New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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