RE: Let's Talk About Medication Reminders; My Research Project (e-Health)
Hi @n4zrizulkafli, thank you for sharing your work, really interesting, even if it wasn’t exactly what you would have preferred to be doing for your project. But that’s the point of university, to be expose students to new ways of thinking and getting you out of your comfort zone!
This is an area that I spend a great deal of time thinking about as a Health Psychologist. The patient has a desire or value to be healthy, however the day-to-day impetus to adhere to the behaviour may be lacking. This sort of system acts as a nudge-to-action, allowing the patient to bridge the gap from intention to behaviour.
Science can develop the best pharmaceutical in the world but they will always remain 0% effective if they are never taken.
I can't stress enough the importance of medical education among patient to ensure their commitment to a long-term treatment
This is a great point that is sometimes overlooked, focus here is often more needed than better drug development for health outcome. However, the sad truth of the matter is that the profit margins on education are far lower than a fancy new drug.
The app sounds great, considering your resources and level of programing expertise. I wouldn’t know where to start on a project such as this, I’m sure you’ll do great. For an addition though, it would obviously be best to link the app to a physical pill dispenser. Something that perhaps sounded an alarm or glowed when it was time to take a pill. In your write up of this you could throw in a paragraph on the internet of things which is all the rage at the moment and I’m sure would go down nicely with anyone marker.
Thanks for the wonderful feedback @nonzerosum. Apologize for the late reply as I was attending a program for 4 days. Linking the app to a physical pill dispenser can be a wonderful feature but I'm not so sure how many people (in my local setting) who even have their own pill dispenser. Regardless, that was a great idea.