Simon Edwards
University of Cambridge
5 Papers
22 Citations
Simon Edwards is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Systematic review & Psychological intervention. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 5 publications.
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A Highly Tailored Text and Voice Messaging Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence in Patients With Either or Both Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes in a UK Primary Care Setting: Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial of Clinical Effectiveness
Aikaterini Kassavou,Venus Mirzaei,James Brimicombe,Simon Edwards,Efthalia Massou,A Toby Prevost,Simon J. Griffin,Stephen Sutton +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that among nonadherent patients with either or both hypertension and type 2 diabetes, a highly tailored digital intervention was effective at improving treatment adherence and feasible to obtain clinically meaningful outcomes.
Issues in the management of prisoners infected with HIV-1: the King's College Hospital HIV prison service retrospective cohort study.
Simon Edwards,Melinda Tenant-Flowers,Joseph Buggy,Peter Horne,Nick Hulme,Philippa Easterbrook,Chris Taylor +6 more
TL;DR: The experience of providing specialist HIV care to prisoners between October 1994 and July 1999 is reviewed, with a focus on male prisoners with HIV-1 and sexually transmitted diseases at Wandsworth and Brixton prisons in south London.
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Acceptability of the Medication Adherence for Patients Support intervention to improve adherence to patients prescribed medications for hypertension or comorbidities, as an adjunct to primary care: A qualitative study.
Aikaterini Kassavou,Vikki Houghton,Simon Edwards,James Brimicombe,Edward C. F. Wilson,Simon J. Griffin,Steven Sutton +6 more
TL;DR: Focus groups with patients with hypertension, type 2 diabetes, or both conditions, presumed to be non-adherent and recruited from deprived neighborhoods, were conducted to assess the acceptability and inform the development of an intervention to provide ongoing support for adherence, as an adjunct to primary-care consultations.
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Development and piloting of a highly tailored digital intervention to support adherence to antihypertensive medications as an adjunct to primary care consultations
TL;DR: In this paper, a text and voice message intervention to increase adherence to medication in primary care is described, based on a 1-month intervention and a follow-up assessment including interviews and questionnaires.
Development and piloting of a highly tailored digital intervention to support adherence to antihypertensive medications as an adjunct to primary care consultations.
TL;DR: Tailored automated text and voice message interventions are feasible ways to improve medication adherence as an adjunct to primary care.