Data analysis
DISEASE
Data were entered into the SPSS software version 22 and analyzed according to per protocol using descriptive (frequency for number of chronic medications, mean for age, percentage and standard deviation for related categories) and inferential (Chi-square for sex, education level, income sufficiency, type of disease, adherence level before and after intervention, Fisher’s exact test for marital status method of information acquisition about the consumed drug and the most used feature in mobile phone and finally independent t-test for age) statistics. In inferential analysis, demographic data of control and intervention group and adherence level before and after intervention in both group were compared with each other at baseline and 8 weeks. The effect size was calculated using the Cramer’s statistic. P values less than 0.05 were considered significant.
The flow of participants in the study (CONSORT Flow Diagram)