To Achieve Blood Pressure Control With Retained Quality of Life

Terminated

• Conditions: Hypertension; Patient Compliance

• Registration Number: NCT02682095
• Lead Sponsor: Eva Drevenhorn

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.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2016-02-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-02-10
• Study First Posted: 2016-02-15
• Study Start: 2016-04
• Primary Completion: 2019-05-31
• Study Completion: 2019-05-31
• Status Verified: 2021-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-03-05
• Last Update Posted: 2021-03-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: TERMINATED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 12

Inclusion Criteria

• diagnosed with hypertension since 9 months
• being able to read and speak Swedish

Exclusion Criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Focus-group interviews	through study completion, an average of 1 year	Discussions in focus-groups
Self-care agency	through study completion, an average of 6 months	Exercise of Self Care Agency (ESCA) instrument
Quality of life: SF-36	through study completion, an average of 6 months	Short Form Health Survey, 36 items
Individual interviews	through study completion, an average of 3 months	Semistructured interviews

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Health Sciences; 🇸🇪 Lund, Sweden