Effect of Smartphone Application (MED-AD) on Medication Adherence Among Patients With Cardiovascular Disease in Oman

"1. Medication Reminders: The oral medication list of the patient (names, doses, times, and frequency of administration) will be entered manually in the application by the RA in agreement with the patient during the medication prescription refill. This application will then send reminders, as notifications and voice notes, to take medications. An example of the reminder is take lisinopril, one tablet, 10 mg at 9:00 am. The reminders will be categorized as normal, urgent \& critical. Normal is a reminder sent on the normal medication timing. An urgent reminder is when the patient misses confirming a reminder more than once, which will be set as an alert on the phone. Critical reminder is when the patient misses confirming a reminder multiple times, which will be as an alert or an alarm on the phone. In addition, the application will notify a family member in case of urgent and critical reminders.~2. Medication Adherence Report: The application will generate a weekly report on medication"

"Participants will receive short text message (SMS) reminders to remind them to take medications as prescribed ONCE daily. However, the SMS will be general and not specify taking particular medicine compared to the application reminders. An example of the SMS message will be Remember to take your medicines of the day? The research team will pilot the MED-AD application on the same population and modify it before the implementation of the study."