InTake Care Testing a Personalized Voice Assistant to Support Medication Adherence in Adults with Hypertension

What this Trial Is About

Researchers are evaluating whether a new digital health solution using a voice assistant can help improve medication adherence in adults with essential hypertension who are on chronic antihypertensive treatment. The study aims to address the challenges of current adherence tools by offering a personalized, user-friendly, and cost-effective system that connects patients and physicians through voice reminders and a web interface. This interdisciplinary randomized clinical trial is sponsored by Istituto Auxologico Italiano. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups the intervention group will receive a vocal assistant device for home use that reminds them when to take their medication and allows them to confirm adherence vocally within 30 minutes. The control group will receive standard verbal advice from their physician about following treatment recommendations. The intervention will be tailored using Personas, which are multidisciplinary representations of different user types, to personalize support. Throughout the study, participants will be monitored for medication adherence using several methods including plasma assays, pill counts, voice assistant records, and questionnaires at 3 and 5 months after starting the intervention. Blood pressure will also be measured at these time points. The research team will assess adherence and blood pressure changes to determine the impact of the vocal assistant system. The total participation duration covers at least 5 months of follow-up after randomization.

InTake Care: Development and Validation of an Innovative, Personalized Digital Health Solution for Medication Adherence Support in Cardiovascular Prevention