10 Wireless health clinical trials

By: Brian Dolan | Nov 11, 2009

Kenya: A Targeted Cell Phone Intervention to Improve Patient Access to Care and Drug Adherence in Patients Taking Antiretroviral (ARV) Medications in Kenya

Principal Investigator: Richard T Lester, MD, FRCPC University of Manitoba

Sponsors and Collaborators: University of Manitoba, University of Nairobi

A clinical study to evaluate the use of cell phones to support drug adherence and follow-up of patients taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) for treatment of HIV. The intervention involves health-care providers sending regular short-message-service (SMS) text messages to patients and following up their responses. The hypothesis is that the cell phone intervention will improve ART adherence and health outcomes compared with the current standard of care.

Enrollment: 536
Study Start Date: May 2007
Estimated Study Completion Date: March 2010

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http://www.ctru.auckland.ac.nz robyn whittaker

There are other places that trials can be registered – i am involved with three mobile phone clinical trials that are registered either in the UK or Australasia. One large text messaging programme to help people quit smoking in the UK (txt2stop), another quit smoking programme that uses video messaging by role models in NZ, and a depression prevention programme for teens that uses multimedia messaging and mobile websites in NZ. For more details http://www.ctru.auckland.ac.nz.

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