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Telehealth-based Strategies to Increase Oral Chemotherapeutic Agent Medication Adherence

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02543723

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Official title

A Randomized Longitudinal Intervention Study to Assess the Efficacy and Feasibility of Telehealth-based Strategies to Increase Oral Chemotherapeutic Agent Medication Adherence and Health Literacy Among Cancer Patients.

Brief summary

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Oral chemotherapeutic agents (OCAs) are increasingly being used as an alternative to traditional intravenous chemotherapy, and factors promoting this trend include increased survival times requiring long-term therapy, acceptability among patients, convenience, and cost savings due to reduced hospital time. Although OCAs are commonly preferred by patients, adherence to these medications vary. Suboptimal medication adherence leads to loss of treatment efficacy, increased toxicity, and increased health care costs. Thus, it is critical to develop and test interventions that effectively improve adherence to OCAs. Although the medication adherence literature has been criticized for methodological issues, some components of interventions have had promising results on adherence such as electronic monitored adherence feedback, cognitive-education, nurse-based interventions, and technology-based or telehealth strategies. The investigators propose to unify components of these effective approaches in a novel way to assess the efficacy and feasibility of two telehealth-based strategies (electronic medication-event monitoring with feedback and tailored nurse coaching which includes cognitive-education) in an effort increase OCA adherence among cancer patients who are at high-risk for non-adherence in rural eastern North Carolina.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02543723
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
East Carolina University
Other
Enrollment
128 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Behavioral

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date
Nov 14, 2015
Primary completion
Mar 29, 2020
Completion
Dec 30, 2020
Last update posted
Jul 21, 2021

2015 – 2020

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Vidant Medical Center Greenville North Carolina 27587

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