My Health Tags - To Improve Taking Tablets For Heart Failure V1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A Single Centre, Randomized, Crossover Early Stage Clinical Study \nto Evaluate the Effects of My Health Tag on Improving \nMedicines Adherence in Patients with Heart Failure\n
IRAS ID
190476
Contact name
Jessica Bissett
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
ISRCTN Number
ISRCTN58513123
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 9 months, 31 days
Research summary
People with long term health problems such as heart failure sometimes don’t take all their suggested medications (called poor compliance). One reason is that people forget to take their medicine at the prescribed time. This can result in more ill health, more hospital admissions and a reduced quality of life for the person, as well as higher health service costs. \nBy helping patients to take their heart failure medicines regularly every day patients are more likely to keep well and free of heart failure symptoms. In turn this can help prevent admission to hospital and improve quality of life. One study has shown that if medicine taking is better, there is an improvement in life expectancy.\nWe plan to carry out a feasibility study to assess how useful an electronic reminder system (My Health Tag) is, in improving compliance in patients with chronic heart failure. My Health Tag is a small electronic device that will remind patients when to take their heart failure tablets. The study will recruit 30 patients in Bristol with stable chronic heart failure. Each of the patients will have both the My Health Tag and standard care for two consecutive four-week periods (in random order). The objective is to see if this reminder system increases the number of tablets people remember to take for their heart failure condition. We will also see if the amount of heart failure drugs found in the urine matches the amount of heart failure drugs taken, check if there is any change in the severity of heart failure, through a simple blood test, find out about quality of life and how easy it was to remember to take tablets through questionnaires. Study is funded by Small Business Research Initiative Healthcare Competition award to Folium Optics. (SBRI Healthcare is funded by NHS England)
REC name
South West - Cornwall & Plymouth Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/SW/0032
Date of REC Opinion
6 Apr 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion