Inviting patients to make a commitment to take their medication as prescribed, as a way to increase medications adherence

Inviting patients to make a commitment to take their medication as prescribed, as a way to increase medications adherence: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN16021642

Enrollment

11292

Registered

2015-09-23

Start date

2015-07-20

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2021-05-24

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Conditions

Medications adherence Not Applicable

Interventions

11,292 patients who have already agreed to participate in a NHS service to support patients to take their medications will be randomly assigned as follows: A: To be invited to sign a s

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients who have already consented to participate in an existing NHS service, called the New Medicines Service 2. Patients who are prescribed a medicine to treat a long-term condition for the first time

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Anyone who has opted to not participate in the NHS New Medicine service 2. Any patients who opt-out from the trial component of the Service

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Whether the patient takes their medication as prescribed. This is measured by the patent self-reporting this to the pharmacist. This research uses common set of questions about adherence, called the Morisky scale. These are the four questions: 1. Do you ever forget to take your medicine? Yes/No 2. Are you careless at times about taking your medicine? Yes/No 3. Sometimes if you feel worse when you take the medicine, do you stop taking it? Yes/No 4. When you feel better do you sometimes stop taking your medicine? Yes/No	—

Measure

Time frame

Whether the patient takes their medication as prescribed. This is measured by the patent self-reporting this to the pharmacist. This research uses common set of questions about adherence, called the Morisky scale. These are the four questions: 1. Do you ever forget to take your medicine? Yes/No 2. Are you careless at times about taking your medicine? Yes/No 3. Sometimes if you feel worse when you take the medicine, do you stop taking it? Yes/No 4. When you feel better do you sometimes stop taking your medicine? Yes/No

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Countries

United Kingdom

Contacts

Public ContactDaniel;Laura Berry;Freeman

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Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026