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A lot of patients, particularly those suffering from chronic diseases usually find it difficult to follow treatment recommendations (Rozenfeld et al., 2008). Due to poor medication adherence, patients fail to get optimal benefit from their medication therapy. Suboptimal treatment may result in increased usage of healthcare services, reduction in the quality of life of the patient, as well as increased costs of healthcare (Kripalani, Yao & Haynes, 2010). This paper describes the search strategy for finding the appropriate articles and provides a table matrix for the selected articles.
Search Criteria
To search the relevant articles, the key words that were used include the following: medication adherence app, mobile app for diabetes medication adherence, SMS reminders for medication adherence, and diabetic Hispanic women. These key words were chosen since there was a high chance of getting the relevant articles by using them to search articles. Only full text articles written in the English language and quantitative, qualitative and systematic reviews were selected. Some of the articles selected address intersectional collaboration between different health care providers as regards adherence to anti-diabetics. It is important to ensure intersectional collaboration as this may improve adherence to medication in patients with chronic diseases (Haynes et al., 2008). The databases used to search the relevant articles included EBSCOhost, Google Scholar, Ovid, Proquest, CINAHL, MEDLINE, and Cochrane Library. These databases were used since they are scholarly and reputable, and contain pertinent journal articles on the subject matter of this research.
Table Matrix of 5 selected articles
Source CitationPurpose/ProblemDesign/SampleInstrument/ MeasuresResultsStrengths/ Weaknesses1Hamine, S., Gerth-Guyette, E., Faulx, D., Green, B., & Ginsburg, A. S. (2015). Impact of mHealth Chronic Disease Management on Treatment Adherence and Patient Outcomes. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 17(2)The authors carried out a systematic literature review to assess the efficacy of mHealth in supporting the adherence of patients to chronic illnesses management (mAdherence). They also sought to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility, and usability of mAdherence platforms and tools in chronic disease management amongst healthcare providers and patientsHamine et al. (2015) searched EBSCO, Embase, and PubMed databases for research studies which evaluated the role of mAdherence in chronic disease management of diabetes mellitus, chronic lung diseases, and heart disease from 1980-May 2014. A total of 107 articles were examined.The 107 identified studies were reviewed by various researchers for qualityShort message service (SMS) was the most widely utilized mAdherence tool in 43 out of the 107 studies. Acceptability, feasibility, and usability or patients preference for mAdherence interventions were evaluated in 62 of the 107 studies and they were found to be high. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) showed that the mAdherence interventions significantly improved adherence behaviorsStrength: A large sample size, 107, was used and all the articles were obtained from scholarly databases.
Weakness: few of the studies analyzed, 41, were RCTs and none focused on Hispanics with diabetes.2Huang, H. L., Li, Y. C., Chou, Y.C., Hsieh, Y. W., Kuo, F., Tsai, W. C., Chai, S. D., Lin, B. Y., Kung, P. T., & Chuang, C. J. (2013). Effects of and satisfaction with short message service reminders for patient medication adherence: A randomized controlled study. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak, 16(13), 127 In their study, Huang et al. (2013) evaluated how implementing SMS reminders affected patients adherence to medication as well as related factorsThe researchers utilized a structured questionnaire in surveying outpatients at 3 medical centers. There were two groups: intervention group (n=763) and control group (n=435). Participants in intervention group were sent SMS everyday that reminded them of facets with regard to taking their drugs. SMSs were not sent to those in the control group Frequency of missed medications were reduced by 78.8 percent and 46.4 percent for patients in the intervention and control groups respectively The studies were reviewed exhaustively by different researchersStrengths: a large sample size of 1,198 hence the results can be generalized to a broader population. Weakness: selection bias as Hispanic patients were not included in the study.3Vervloet, M., van Dijk, L., Santen-Reestman, J., van Vlijmen., Bouvy, M. L., & de Bakker, D. H. (2011). Improving medication adherence in diabetes type 2 patients through Real Time Medication Monitoring: A Randomized Controlled Trial to evaluate th...