Voice Assistant Tool to Help Patients Take Blood Pressure Medicines
Tests a voice-assistant system that reminds adults with high blood pressure to take their medicine.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: InTake Care: Development and Validation of an Innovative, Personalized Digital Health Solution for Medication Adherence Support in Cardiovascular Prevention
Key facts
- Where
- Milan, ItalySee the site
Where in Italy
- San Luca Hospital, Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCSMilan, ItalyTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
- Trial code
- NCT06229171
- Record updated
- 21 August 2025
- Original description
Inadequate medication adherence (MA) in chronic conditions, including cardiovascular prevention, represents an important risk factor. The use of new IT technologies in this setting is supposed to be useful to improve patients' adherence, but currently available solutions have significant limitations, including lack of personalization and reliance on expensive ad hoc systems.Read full original descriptionShow less
InTake Care: Development and Validation of an Innovative, Personalized Digital Health Solution for Medication Adherence Support in Cardiovascular Prevention
Inadequate medication adherence (MA) in chronic conditions, including cardiovascular prevention, represents an important risk factor. The use of new IT technologies in this setting is supposed to be useful to improve patients' adherence, but currently available solutions have significant limitations, including lack of personalization and reliance on expensive ad hoc systems.
This interdisciplinary project aims to verify the hypothesis that in patients on chronic antihypertensive treatment MA can be improved through the implementation of a novel digital health solution for MA monitoring and support, based on inexpensive and user-friendly, commercially available technology (voice assistant), connected with web interface for the physician. The intervention will be personalized based on the creation of Personas, intended as multidisciplinary-based representations of different user types. This approach will be tested in a randomized clinical trial.
Inclusion: Adult (>18 years old) patients; History of essential hypertension; Treatment with at least one antihypertensive drug for which dedicated plasma essay is available; wireless internet connection available at patients' home; stable clinical conditions; written informed consent.
Exclusion: dementia or significant psychiatric disorders; conditions significantly limiting vocal communication (deafness, significant speech disorders, poor knowledge of Italian language); active cancer (except basal cell skin carcinoma); insufficient technological literacy to manage vocal assistant; pregnancy or breastfeeding; upper limb amputation.