Research On Medication Management System Based On Persuasive Technology To Improve Users’ Medication Adherence

Medicine is a powerful tool that humans use to treat diseases.However,fault and irregular taking medicine due to various causes as well as other problems of medication non-adherence has seriously affected the majority of patients’ health.What is more,medication non-adherence has caused great loss of life and property to the whole society.In order to systematically solve the problem of medication non-adherence,this research has studied the causes of medication non-adherence and the current behavior intervention methods by means of literature research and questionnaire survey.One of the main causes for medication compliance deficiency is lack of motivation.Therefore,this paper tries to solve the problem of medication compliance from the view of persuasive technology.Persuasive technology is an interdisciplinary field of psychology and information technology applied to human-computer interaction design.Over the past two decades’ development,it provides innovative design ideas to enhance user motivation and to change user behavior in the fields of health care,education,sale et al.Based on the guidance of the persuasive system design model,this paper designs a medication management system,and provides the design process with the product design strategy of the user-end products and services in the system.The medication management system consists of a pharmacy front-end medication management software,a back-end cloud platform for information processing,a standard workflow for medicine packaging and logistics,a pharmaceutical package with medicine information and instruction,and an electronic device for users with a mobile application.Before the final design of the interface,an experimental evaluation of the usability of the user-end product design is conducted,and the results are used to guide the user-end interface design.In the iterative design of this study,the researcher designed the interface of the mobile app prototype and user-end product.Throughout the system design process,this research will follow the design strategy and the design model of persuasive technology to improve the user’s medication motivation by the medication management system,and ultimately to improve the medication adherence of the users.