Possibilities for Patients With Elevated Blood Pressure to Achieve Blood Pressure Control Without Affecting Quality of Life (the PEQ Study)
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Hypertension
- Sponsor
- Eva Drevenhorn
- Enrollment
- 12
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Self-care agency
- Status
- Terminated
- Last Updated
- 5 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of the study is to get an understanding about what problems patients with hypertension are facing, how they manage these challenges, how they feel and what requirements they believe are important to have in their treatment. These factors will later act as a foundation and incentive for designing an intervention that may result in more patients achieving blood pressure control with maintained quality of life.
Detailed Description
This is a Swedish observational mixed-methods study to get an understanding about what problems patients with hypertension are facing. The information will act as a foundation for designing an intervention/interventions that may result in more patients achieving blood pressure control with maintained quality of life. Patients, who have well/not well controlled blood pressure, are to fill in questionnaires about their view on ability to perform self-care and their perceived quality of life. Individual interviews will also be made about for what reasons they do or do not change lifestyle as well as take their drugs to treat their hypertension. In focus group interviews the patients are to be asked about what they want and expect in the encounter with health care personnel, what other things outside the health care area would be helpful for the patient and how age, gender, cultural and psychosocial aspects affect the ability to achieve blood pressure control. The developed future interventions will be evaluated in clinical practice.
Investigators
Eva Drevenhorn
Senior Lecturer
Lund University
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •diagnosed with hypertension since 9 months
- •being able to read and speak Swedish
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Self-care agency
Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 6 months
Exercise of Self Care Agency (ESCA) instrument
Quality of life: SF-36
Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 6 months
Short Form Health Survey, 36 items
Focus-group interviews
Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Discussions in focus-groups
Individual interviews
Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 3 months
Semistructured interviews