Trial reportBMC health services research2014
Effects of a TELephone Counselling Intervention by Pharmacist (TelCIP) on medication adherence, patient beliefs and satisfaction with information for patients starting treatment: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.
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- Pharmaceutical care-based interventions in type 2 diabetes mellitus : a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2020Pooled it
- Pharmacy-based management for depression in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Tailored pharmacist-led intervention to improve adherence to Iron supplementation in premature infants: a randomized controlled trial in China.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Trial
- Pharmacist-led new medicine service: a real-world cohort study in the Netherlands on drug-related problems, satisfaction, and self-efficacy in cardiovascular patients transitioning to primary care.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2025Article
- Telephonic intervention to combat non-adherence to oral iron-folic acid supplementation in pregnancy: A randomized controlled trial.European journal of obstetrics & gynecology and reproductive biology: X · 2023Article
- Factors influencing medication adherence in multi-ethnic Asian patients with chronic diseases in Singapore: A qualitative study.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Article
- Impact of Adherence Education and Monitoring on Community Pharmacy Performance Scores and Patient Satisfaction.Innovations in pharmacy · 2020Article
- Adherence to guideline recommendations for asthma care in community pharmacies: actual and needed performance.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2019Article
- Community pharmacists' attitudes towards patient leaflets: Exploring perceptions underlying an electronic local production of tailored written information.AIMS public health · 2018Article
- Cluster randomized trials for pharmacy practice research.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2016Review
- Effects of Telephone Counseling Intervention by Pharmacists (TelCIP) on Medication Adherence; Results of a Cluster Randomized Trial.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundAdherence to medication is often low. Pharmacists may improve adherence, but a one-size-fits-all approach will not work: different patients have different needs. Goal of the current study is to assess the effectiveness of a patient-tailored, telephone-based intervention by a pharmacist at the start of pharmacotherapy aimed at improving medication adherence, satisfaction with information and counselling and the beliefs about medicines. METHODS/
designA cluster randomized controlled intervention trial in 30 Dutch pharmacies, randomly assigned to 1 of 2 intervention groups. Each group consists of an intervention arm and an usual care arm. The intervention arm in the first group is the usual care arm in the second group and vice versa. One intervention arm focuses on patients starting with antidepressants or bisphosphonates and the other on antilipaemic drugs or renin angiotensin system (RAS)-inhibitors. The intervention consists of a telephone call by a pharmacist 2 or 3 weeks after a new prescription. A random sample of pharmacies will send questionnaires 3 months after the first prescription. This contains socio-demographic questions, a measure of beliefs about medicines (BMQ), satisfaction with information received (SIMS, abbreviated) and frequency of pharmacy counselling (Consumer Quality Index, CQI, abbreviated). The primary outcome measure will be medication adherence calculated from dispensing records retrieved 12 months after the intervention. Patients' beliefs on medication, perception of the quality of information received and pharmacy counselling are secondary outcomes. DISCUSSION: The TelCIP study will determine the effectiveness of telephone counselling to improve adherence in patients initiating a new treatment. By measuring satisfaction with information and counselling and beliefs about medication the study will also give clues for the reason of a potential increase in adherence. Finally the study will provide information on which patients are most likely to benefit from this intervention.
trial registrationThe trial is registered at http://www.trialregister.nl under the identifier NTR3237.
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