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Persuasive Pillboxes: Improving Medication Adherence with Personal Digital Assistants

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Personal digital assistants (PDAs) can be used persuasively to change attitudes regarding medication taking, thereby facilitating adherence for older adults. A pillbox that integrates onto the body of the PDA was created as a place to store mid-day pills. Results from a lab and field experiment on older adults’ perceptions and use of PDAs for medication minding are reported. In both the lab and field experiment, older adults were successfully trained to use PDA standard programs and a program for medication reminding. At the conclusion of the 3-month field experiment, a physical pill count yielded increased compliance with two-thirds of the participants missing 1 pill or less in the third month of the study. Implications for PDA training curricula, hardware design, and future research are discussed.

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  1. Creative Action LLC, University of Akron, University of Maryland, University College, 680 N. Portage Path, Akron, OH, 44303, United States

    Anthony A. Sterns

  2. Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, 640 Poe Hall, Campus Box 7801, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695-7801, United States

    Christopher B. Mayhorn

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  1. Eindhoven University of Technology, Den Dolech 2, 5600MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn

  2. Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600, Eindhoven, MB, The Netherlands

    Yvonne A. W. de Kort

  3. Department of Human-Technology Interaction, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O.Box 513, 5600, Eindhoven, MB, The Netherlands

    Cees Midden

  4. Faculteit Industrial Design, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Postbus 513, 5600, Eindhoven, MB, The Netherlands

    Berry Eggen

  5. Industrial Design Department, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600, Eindhoven, MB, The Netherlands

    Elise van den Hoven

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Sterns, A.A., Mayhorn, C.B. (2006). Persuasive Pillboxes: Improving Medication Adherence with Personal Digital Assistants. In: IJsselsteijn, W.A., de Kort, Y.A.W., Midden, C., Eggen, B., van den Hoven, E. (eds) Persuasive Technology. PERSUASIVE 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3962. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11755494_29

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