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Mobile phone text messaging to improve medication adherence in secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease

2017; Elsevier BV; Volume: 2017; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/14651858.cd011851.pub2

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Alma J Adler, Nicole Martin, Javier Mariani, Carlos Tajer, Onikepe Owolabi, Caroline Free, Norma C. Serrano, Juan P. Casas, Pablo Perel,

Digital Mental Health Interventions

Worldwide at least 100 million people are thought to have prevalent cardiovascular disease (CVD). This population has a five times greater chance of suffering a recurrent cardiovascular event than people without known CVD. Secondary CVD prevention is defined as action aimed to reduce the probability of recurrence of such events. Drug interventions have been shown to be cost-effective in reducing this risk and are recommended in international guidelines. However, adherence to recommended treatments remains sub-optimal. In order to influence non-adherence, there is a need to develop scalable and cost-effective behaviour-change interventions.