Designing a solution for Adherence to treatment in patient with type۲ diabetes: priming-based intervention

Patients with type ۲ diabetes face with adherence-to-treatment and based on past adherence to treatment models, interventions with conscious intentions for achieving health goal have not been very successful. Therefore, in this study, a goal-priming intervention has been designed to address this issue.This qualitative study uses grounded theory method to identify barriers and motivators for adherence to treatment according to patients. Therefore, semi-structured interviews were conducted with ۱۷ patients using convenience sampling based on saturation theory. As a result, a paradigmatic model with central category of adherence to treatment was obtained with subsets of ease of execution, individual conditions, environmental and social status, factors affecting acceptance and attitude, strategies and consequences. Therefore, based on the model found, a ۳۰-day priming-based intervention was designed including words, pictures, scrambled phrases, music and videos. Priming-based intervention can obtain motivation in long term and help patients to pursue health goal and adhere the treatment unconsciously. Also, this intervention is affordable, online and easy to implement by healthcare professionals.

Keywords:

Type ۲ Diabetes , Adherence to Treatment , Goal-Priming , Qualitative research.