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Efficacy and safety of a multifactor intervention to improve therapeutic adherence in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): protocol for the ICEPOC study.

Pilar Barnestein-Fonseca, José Leiva-Fernández, Francisca Vidal-España, Antonio García-Ruiz, Daniel Prados-Torres, Francisca Leiva-Fernández

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6 authors.

Pilar Barnestein-FonsecaFamily and Community Medicine Teaching Unit of Malaga, Distrito Sanitario Málaga, Málaga, Spain. mariap.barnestein.exts@juntadeandalucia.es
José Leiva-Fernández
Francisca Vidal-España
Antonio García-Ruiz
Daniel Prados-Torres
Francisca Leiva-Fernández

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundLow therapeutic adherence to medication is very common. Clinical effectiveness is related to dose rate and route of administration and so poor therapeutic adherence can reduce the clinical benefit of treatment. The therapeutic adherence of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is extremely poor according to most studies. The research about COPD adherence has mainly focussed on quantifying its effect, and few studies have researched factors that affect non-adherence. Our study will evaluate the effectiveness of a multifactor intervention to improve the therapeutic adherence of COPD patients. METHODS/

designA randomized controlled clinical trial with 140 COPD diagnosed patients selected by a non-probabilistic method of sampling. Subjects will be randomly allocated into two groups, using the block randomization technique. Every patient in each group will be visited four times during the year of the study.

interventionMotivational aspects related to adherence (beliefs and behaviour): group and individual interviews; cognitive aspects: information about illness; skills: inhaled technique training. Reinforcement of the cognitive-emotional aspects and inhaled technique training will be carried out in all visits of the intervention group. DISCUSSION: Adherence to a prescribed treatment involves a behavioural change. Cognitive, emotional and motivational aspects influence this change and so we consider the best intervention procedure to improve adherence would be a cognitive and emotional strategy which could be applied in daily clinical practice. Our hypothesis is that the application of a multifactor intervention (COPD information, dose reminders and reinforcing audiovisual material, motivational aspects and inhalation technique training) to COPD patients taking inhaled treatment will give a 25% increase in the number of patients showing therapeutic adherence in this group compared to the control group.We will evaluate the effectiveness of this multifactor intervention on patient adherence to inhaled drugs considering that it will be right and feasible to the clinical practice context.

trial registrationCurrent Controlled Trials ISRCTN18841601.

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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeMedication AdherencePatient Education as TopicResearch DesignAdministration, InhalationBronchodilator AgentsCognitionEmotionsHealth BehaviorHumansMotivationNebulizers and VaporizersPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveReinforcement, PsychologySpainTreatment OutcomeBronchodilator Agents

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PMID21320300
PMCPMC3049740

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