Journal article
Safety and adherence to medications and self-care advice in oncology (SAMSON): pilot randomised controlled trial protocol
TH Dang, N Wickramasinghe, PP Jayaraman, K Burbury, M Alexander, A Whitechurch, S Quinn, G Rowan, SL Brooks, P Schofield
BMJ Open | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2024
Open access
Abstract
Introduction With the increasing use of oral anticancer medicines (OAMs), research demonstrating the magnitude of the medication non-adherence problem and its consequences on treatments’ efficacy and toxicity is drawing more attention. Mobile phone interventions may be a practical solution to support patients taking OAMs at home, yet evidence to inform the efficacy of these interventions is lacking. The safety and adherence to medications and self-care advice in oncology (SAMSON) pilot randomised control trial (RCT) aims to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility and potential efficacy of a novel digital solution to improve medication adherence (MA) among people with cancer. Methods and anal..
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Funding Acknowledgements
THD is supported by Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre, Swinburne University of Technology and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Project # DHCRC-0043) and Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (Award # N/A). DHCRC is funded under the Australian Commonwealth's Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program (Program # N/A). The sponsor had no influence on the study design or the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data. The final decision to include the comments and submit the manuscript for publication was made only by the authors.