Evaluating the influence of motivational and educational strategies in personalized medication management

Medication non-adherence is a major problem to all stakeholders, posing escalating costs and risks to patients as well as substantial economic burden to the health care industry. Solutions that attempt to broaden the functions and capabilities of medication management have hitherto been employing a narrow-focused approach, often failing to address the multitude of factors that leads to the phenomena. In this paper, we present an experimental comparison of user attitude towards medication adherence using a single-focused versus a multifaceted personalized medication management system that has been implemented with elements of motivational and educational strategies. The findings from this research suggest evidence of the significance and usefulness of applying a multifaceted approach, in particular, the implementation of motivational and educational strategies in the design of a personalized medication management system in addressing medication non-adherence.

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