Global healthcare systems have a great deal of difficulty in treating heart failure (HF), and proper drug adherence is essential to the            long-term management of this illness. Even though a number of interventions have been suggested to improve medication adherence in heart failure patients, further research is still needed to determine whether persuasive technology tactics are effective in this situation. The study poses a comparison between treatment approaches and an array of persuasive technologies to facilitate medication adherence in the case of heart failure patients and impacts the implementation of these persuasive strategies by moderating factors. The main purpose of this study is to improve the quality of life of heart failure patients with the execution of experimental research on enhancing adherence through the persuasive arguments program by using a two-group pre-and post-test design with 50 patients who were sampled through convenience sampling. As for the study group, standard care was given to the control group in the form of pillboxes and education booklets, while persuasive technology strategies such as electronic medication dispensers were used in the experimental group. Medication adherence measurement has been executed via Medication Adherence Ratio formula and the statistical analysis were run to compare and assess various therapies. Despite the patients’ demographics, this study noteworthy reveals that persuasive technological tools have a pivotal role in increasing adherence to medications coupled with better health outcomes for heart failure patients. Researchers and public health officials must cross-dress persuasive technology into clinical practice, take action to encourage the adoption by means of costs and accessibility, and give the priority to the ones that will be more long-term to find out how the technology will be effective and scalable in healthcare places for the realization of the benefits.

heart failure, medication adherence, persuasive technology intervention, medication dispensers, pill boxes

Received: June 2, 2024; Accepted: June 28, 2024; Published: July 11, 2024

How to cite this article: Osamah A. Altammami, Enhancing medication adherence in heart failure patients: an empirical study of persuasive technology strategies, JP Journal of Biostatistics 24(2) (2024), 371-397. https://doi.org/10.17654/0973514324021

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