Effectiveness of a community-based medication counselling service on enhancing drug compliance among patients prescribed antihypertensive agents: a randomized controlled trial

Completed

• Conditions: Hypertension; Cardiovascular - Hypertension; Public Health - Health service research

• Registration Number: ACTRN12613000146796
• Lead Sponsor: WONG Chi Sang, Martin

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2013-02-07
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 300

Inclusion Criteria

1.Aged 18 years or older;
2.Taking long-term antihypertensive medications
3.Not previously received any community-based intervention programmes on medication adherence;
4.Assessed as having suboptimal compliance to the antihypertensive medication, as assessed by the Morisky self-reported adherence questionnaire.
5.Consent to adhere to the group of intervention they are allocated to.

Exclusion Criteria

1.Inability of the patient to communicate and understand Cantonese;
2.Medical conditions rendering the patient not mentally capable to participate in this study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changes in the systolic and diastolic blood pressure as assessed by a random-zero sphygmomanometer in the right arm with an appropriately sized cuff.[Timepoint: baseline, 3 months and 6 months from baseline]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changes in compliance to antihypertensive medications as assessed by Morisky Medication Adherence Scores (MMAS).[Timepoint: baseline, 3 months and 6 months after baseline]