Implementation of a New Model of Care for Supporting Adherence in People Starting a New Medication for a Long-term Condition (myCare Start-I Project) - An Implementation Science Study - Phase A
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Medication Initiation for Long-term Conditions
- Sponsor
- University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Enrollment
- 100
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Medication adherence (objective measure)
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
The overall objective of the myCare Start-I project is to adapt, implement and evaluate the myCare Start service within the Swiss pharmacy-physician network to enhance medication adherence during the initiation of a new long-term treatment. The study will use an implementation science approach. The myCare Start service is based on the New Medicine Service (NMS) that was developed in the United Kingdom.
Detailed Description
Phase A: 1. To conduct a contextual analysis of the current Swiss primary care ecosystem as related to pharmacy-physician interprofessional health services for patients with long-term diseases (i.e., contextual analysis). 2. To engage key stakeholders within the Swiss primary care ecosystem to contribute to the co-creation of a Swiss interprofessional myCare Start service (i.e., stakeholder involvement). 3. To design a contextually adapted myCare Start for use within Swiss community practice using contextually appropriate implementation strategies (i.e., intervention development/selecting implementation strategies). 4. To conduct feasibility testing on the contextually adapted intervention and implementation strategies and to develop an implementation research logic model (i.e., feasibility testing). Phase B: Please note Phase B will be carried out at a later date with further ethics committee approval. 5. To implement a contextually adapted Swiss myCare Start intervention in the pharmacy-physician network community and evaluate it in terms of medication adherence and cost-effectiveness outcomes. 6. To evaluate implementation outcomes and the implementation pathway of myCare Start.
Investigators
Marie Paule Schneider, PhD
Prof. Dr. Marie Paule Schneider
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Community pharmacists and technicians of 5 participating pharmacies in the French-speaking part of Switzerland and 5 in the German-speaking part of Switzerland
- •Primary care physicians working in collaboration or in the neighbourhood of the participating pharmacies
- •Patients with long-term treatments, who are a regular patients of the included pharmacies
- •International research groups who have implemented NMS within their countries or similar interventions.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Patients not willing to participate
- •Patients that do not speak French or German
- •Phase B: hybrid type 2 effectiveness-implementation study
- •Patients are eligible for the myCare Start-I phase B study if :
- •They are taking part in the myCare Start service
- •They have been newly prescribed one or more new long-term medications in accordance with one of the five defined long-term conditions (cardiovascular disease (incl. hypertension and thromboprophylaxis), diabetes, hyperlipidaemia, depression and respiratory illness (asthma, COPD))
- •They are 18 years or older
- •They have mandatory basic health insurance in Switzerland
- •They are able to self-manage treatment (i.e. they live at home without any support to manage their medication, exception: patient uses a pill dispenser and fills it in by him-/herself).
- •They understand language spoken by pharmacy staff and are able to read and understand study documents (ge, fr)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Medication adherence (objective measure)
Time Frame: 6 - 12 months
Prescription renewal records (objective measure): Medication renewal records will be extracted from pharmaceutical records and analyzed using the "AdhereR" software in R.
Medication adherence (subjective measure)
Time Frame: 6 - 12 months
Patient self-assessment (subjective measure): We will use the BAASIS© (Basel Assessment of Adherence to Immunosuppressive Medications Scale), a 6-item scale with demonstrated psychometric properties in transplantation and other chronic diseases, as it assesses adherence according to the ABC taxonomy (Initiation, Medication Implementation, and Persistence. The BAASIS scale has a minimum and maximum value of 6 and 30, respectively. Lower scores on the BAASIS indicate poorer adherence to immunosuppressive medications, while higher scores indicate better adherence. This self-report instrument consists of six items that assess different aspects of medication adherence, including dose taking, drug holidays, timing deviation, reduction of dose, persistence, and timing of dose taking.
Cost-effectiveness short-term
Time Frame: 12 months
Total healthcare utilisation, in terms of total costs per patient, will be evaluated over the duration of the myCare Start follow-up period (12 months) using health insurance data. This will be combined with adherence results to determine the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio between the total costs per patient in the intervention vs. the control groups and the difference in adherence between groups. The survey will be forwarded to the patient at 14 days, 6 months, and 12 months after inclusion into the study via an emailed online survey. The main analysis consists of calculating 1) the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio between the total costs per patient in the intervention vs. the control group and 2.) the difference in adherence between groups and the probability that the intervention is cost-effective when the willingness to pay varies (i.e. the cost-effectiveness acceptability curve), the two classic indicators of cost-effectiveness analyses of health programmes.
Cost-effectiveness long-term
Time Frame: 12 months
Long-term potential healthcare cost savings will be evaluated using Markov Modelling. The Markov Modelling approach applied in this study is an adapted version of the models previously used in the UK to evaluate the New Medicine Service, adjusted with parameters tailored to the Swiss context. This approach will enable the projection and estimation of medium- and long-term benefits arising from improved adherence to the prescriptions as a result of the myCare start intervention. In Switzerland, the most commonly prescribed medications for long-term illnesses include cholesterol-lowering therapies, type 2 diabetes drugs, hypertension treatments, and antidepressants. For these four medication groups, specific Markov models have been developed. These calculations will be conducted during the 12-month longitudinal follow-up phase.
Implementations Outcomes
Time Frame: 12 months
The myCare start service will be evaluated in terms of acceptability, adoption, appropriateness, fidelity, feasibility, and implementation cost as proposed by Proctor's Implementation Outcomes Taxonomy (Proctor et al., 2019). Cost of implementation will be assessed using the time-driven activity-based cost (TDABC) instrument. This pragmatic method allows investigators to systematically estimate the cost of implementation strategies (e.g. training, reorganisation of practice, regular stakeholder meetings) and the cost of the intervention.