Improving treatment adherence in people with diabetes mellitus-INTENSE
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Towards the development of a personalised E-Health intervention for use in community pharmacies to analyse and improve medication non-adherence in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus, who are non-adherent to oral blood glucose and blood pressure lowering drugs
IRAS ID
270673
Contact name
Debi Bhattacharya
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of East Anglia
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 8 months, 30 days
Research summary
People with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have an increased risk of problems with their eyes and kidneys caused by high levels of sugar in their blood. We usually use medicines to lower these sugar levels but around one half of people with T2DM don’t take their medicines as prescribed. Researchers have had little success in helping people with T2DM to take their medicines as prescribed. We think this is because the things they have tried are usually a ‘one size fits all’ approach but everyone is different and so will need and want different ways to help them take their medicines as prescribed. We have been working for several years on developing different ways to help people take their medicines as prescribed. We have tested each of these different ways so know that they work for some people. What we plan to do in this project is put them all together and allow the patient and pharmacist to sit together and select which ways are likely to be best for the individual. We will only be testing our ways on people with T2DM who we know have not been taking their medication as prescribed. The patient’s medical practice will help us find these people by searching their records and send a letter introducing the patient to the project so that the patient knows the service is supported by their GP. We will provide detailed training to the pharmacy team to ensure they do what we want. We will randomly allocate people to this new service or usual services. The patient’s GP will give us blood sugar readings at the start and end of the service so that we can find out whether our service improved blood sugar and whether it is good value for money to the NHS.
REC name
Wales REC 5
REC reference
19/WA/0275
Date of REC Opinion
27 Sep 2019
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion