The eyeGuide: Improving Glaucoma Self-management With a Personalized Behavior Change Program

NCT ID: NCT03159247

Last Updated: 2024-03-19

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

107 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-01-12

Study Completion Date

2020-01-10

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this research study is to test the impact of two personalized technology based programs that may help improve adherence to glaucoma medications.

Detailed Description

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Despite evidence from randomized clinical trials that medication reduces vision loss from glaucoma, it remains the second leading cause of blindness in the United States. A critical barrier to preventing vision loss is that about one-half of glaucoma patients are essentially "untreated" because they do not adhere to their medications. Ineffective self-management behaviors and poor clinical outcomes disproportionately affect the most vulnerable members of US society. The increased burden of glaucoma due to an aging US population, together with a projected shortage of ophthalmologists, will make team-based care essential. There is a critical need to develop and test team-based, personalized behavior change interventions for glaucoma patients to improve medication adherence and the outcomes of care.

Poor adherence to effective medications is a critical barrier to better outcomes in glaucoma patients. The World Health Organization stated that "increasing the effectiveness of adherence interventions may have a far greater impact on the health of the population than any improvement in specific medical treatments." Once diagnosed with glaucoma, at least half of patients do not adhere to their glaucoma medication regimen, return for follow-up, or persist with their medications over the longer term. Patients who are not adherent have more severe visual field loss, which leads to steep declines in health-related quality of life and increased risk of falls and motor vehicle accidents.

Adherence to glaucoma medications is rarely addressed during the clinical encounter because education and counseling programs are not part of standard glaucoma care. Focus groups have demonstrated that patients often have a poor understanding of glaucoma and its treatment. In addition to knowledge gaps, patients have numerous concrete and psychological barriers to managing their glaucoma. In addition, eye drop instillation is rarely taught, and many patients cannot properly instill their medications.

Uniform, scripted approaches to improve adherence do not work. However, complex, individualized counseling interventions, especially those based in motivational interviewing (MI), have improved adherence and health outcomes in many chronic diseases. MI is a style of counseling that engages patients by discussing priorities and obstacles to facilitate intrinsic motivation to change health behavior. Few complex interventions based on these successful principles have been rigorously tested and none implemented into glaucoma care. The eyeGuide is a web-based personally tailored behavior change program based on MI principles, a systematic review of the glaucoma adherence literature, and data from focus groups, surveys and iterative beta-testing with glaucoma patients. It provides individually tailored disease information and support to facilitate MI-based conversations between patients and paraprofessional staff to improve medication adherence. Such technology-based electronic health (eHealth) innovations have great potential to extend the reach of physicians by enabling team-based care.

In this pilot study, the study will test the impact of two personalized eHealth technologies on medication adherence among non-adherent glaucoma patients in a pre-post design: 1) real time automated adherence reminders; and 2) the eyeGuide counseling program. The study will explore the effects of these interventions on secondary outcomes including psychosocial mediators of adherence (e.g. motivation, self-efficacy, satisfaction), intraocular pressure (IOP), and IOP fluctuation.

Conditions

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Medication Adherence Glaucoma

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

This is a single group prospective behavioral intervention with a pre-post design. Adherence will be measured for three months at baseline, for an additional one month after an automated reminder system is initiated, for an additional six months during a personalized behavior change intervention and then for one year after the intervention.
Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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eyeGuide

Two personalized eHealth interventions aimed to improve glaucoma medication adherence.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

eyeGuide

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The eyeGuide, a web-based tool to facilitate a personalized behavior change program for non-adherent glaucoma patients.

Interventions

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eyeGuide

The eyeGuide, a web-based tool to facilitate a personalized behavior change program for non-adherent glaucoma patients.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Diagnosis of glaucoma, glaucoma suspect or ocular hypertension
* Taking ≥ 1 glaucoma medication
* Age ≥ 40 years
* Non-adherent to glaucoma medications by both self-report and three months of electronic medication monitoring (adherence ≤ 80%)

Exclusion Criteria

* Cognitive impairment
* Severe mental illness
* Do not administer own glaucoma medications
* Do not speak English
Minimum Eligible Age

40 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Eye Institute (NEI)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Research to Prevent Blindness

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Henry Ford Health System

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Michigan

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Paula Anne Newman-Casey

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Paula A Newman-Casey, MD, MS

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Michigan

Locations

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University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

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Other Identifiers

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1K23EY025320-01A1

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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HUM00112614

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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