Culturally sensitive hypertension counselling for Afro-Surinamese and Ghanaian hypertensive patients in Dutch general practices

Completed

• Conditions: Hypertension; Circulatory System; Essential (primary) hypertension

• Registration Number: ISRCTN35675524
• Lead Sponsor: The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) (Netherlands)

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-08-27
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 148

Inclusion Criteria

Primary Care Practitioners:
1. Have to provide hypertension care according to a practice protocol based on the guidelines for cardiovascular risk management from the Dutch Association for General Practitioners
2. Should not participate in any similar study to improve cardiovascular risk management

Patients:
1. Self-identified as Afro-Surinamese or Ghanaian
2. Aged 20 years and older, either sex
3. Diagnosis of hypertension with International Classification of Diseases, tenth edition (ICD-10) codes I10: Essential (primary) hypertension
4. Uncontrolled blood pressure (BP) (greater than or equal to 140/90 mmHg) at the last office visit. In addition all patients must have an uncontrolled BP at the time of the baseline assessment.

Exclusion Criteria

Patients:
1. No diabetes type 1 or type 2
2. No current participation in other cardiovascular disease-related trials
3. The general practitioner who treats the patients judges him/her unfit for participation (e.g., due to co-morbidity)
4. Unable/unwilling to provide informed consent

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified