服药提醒APP的开发及其提高服药依从性的研究

基于Android平台设计开发一款服药提醒APP,可以快速设置个性化的服药提醒和记录患者的服药时刻等信息,并使用该APP来提高和研究被试的服药依从性.14例被试者参加了该APP的服药依从性评价实验,运用药片计数法研究使用和不使用该APP时被试的服药量和服药率差异.对被试在两种情况下的服药量和服药率进行Wilcoxon匹配样本符号秩和检验,结果显示使用该APP时的服药量和服药率明显高于不使用APP的情况,差异有统计学意义(Z=-2.93,P=0.003).实验结果表明使用该服药提醒APP确实可以提高被试的用药量和服药率.该方法的使用为临床研究提供了更加丰富的技术手段,也为广大医务工作人员和患者减轻了负担.

Development of a medication reminder and the research on the improvement of medication compliance

To develop a medication reminder based on Android platform, which can be used to set up personalized reminders quickly and record the patient' s medication time-stamp and related information. In addition, the effect of using the reminder on medication compliance was studied. 14 subjects participated in the evaluation of medica-tion compliance. The differences of dosage and medication rate between the group using and without using reminder were investigated. The dosage and medication rate were got by the pill counting. The Wilcoxon matched -pairs signed rank test showed that the dosage and the medication rate of the group using reminder were higher than that without using reminder significantly(Z= -2. 93, P =0. 003 ). The results demonstrated that the use of the re-minder can improve the medication dose and rate significantly,indicate that the reminder might be a new technical support for clinical research on medication compliance, and also might reduce the workload for medical staff and patients.