Impact of Advanced Practical Nursing Intervention Versus Usual Care on Hypertension Control

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Not yet recruiting

Brief Summary: Hypertension is the most frequent chronic pathology in France and in the world. It is one of the main modifiable cardiovascular risk factors. In France, 50% of treated hypertensives are uncontrolled and only 30% of treated patients are fully adherent to their antihypertensive treatment. Poor adherence to drug treatments is considered as one of the main causes of non-control of hypertension.

Since 2018, a new profession has entered the French healthcare system: Advanced Practice Nurses (APN). They have many broad skills, at the interface of nursing and medical exercises.

The purpose of this interventional study is to assess the impact of APN on blood pressure (BP) control in the context of usual care of hypertension thanks to a better adhesion of patients and a better therapeutic alliance.

The hypothesis formulated is that an individual APN intervention, included in a usual hypertension management, improves BP control.

Detailed Description: This study will be a prospective, open-label, randomized 1-to-1 and monocentric trial, conducted at the Diagnosis and Therapeutic Center of the Hôtel-Dieu University Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, France.

Recruitment will be conducted during the ambulatory hospitalization. After the signature of the consent form, the randomization will be conducted during the ambulatory hospitalization. All recruited patients will be randomized.

According to the randomization, the odd-numbered participants will constitute the "usual care" group, and the even-numbered patients will constitute the "intervention" group.

The "usual care" group will keep a traditional follow-up: ambulatory hospitalization then consultation with a MD within approximately 2 to 12 months.

The "intervention" group will meet the APN between the ambulatory hospitalization and the MD consultation, within 1 to 6 months.

The participants will get their study appointment(s) (MD consultation +/- APN intervention) at the end of the ambulatory hospitalization according to their allocation.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Interventional group	APN intervention	The interventional group meets an Advanced Practice Nurses (APN) between the ambulatory hospitalization (AH) and the MD consultation

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Blood pressure control	Medical consultation, from 2 months to 12 months after inclusion	Blood pressure \< 140/90 mmHg

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Rate of patients who brought HBPM to consultation	Medical consultation, from 2 months to 12 months after inclusion	Ability to realize a home blood pressure measurement Blood pressure control in home blood pressure measurement (HBPM)
Number of measurements	Medical consultation, from 2 months to 12 months after inclusion	Ability of HBPM Quality of the HBPM : Number of measurements carried out over 3 days (18 measurements over 3 days according to protocol) then divided into 4 categories: performance (18 measurements), average performance (17 to 15 measurements), average performance (14 to 12 measurements or less), poor performance (11 measures or less).
Rate of Blood pressure control	Medical consultation, from 2 months to 12 months after inclusion	Difference between inclusion and the Medical consultation, from 2 months to 12 months after inclusion
Rate of therapeutic adjustments	Medical consultation, from 2 months to 12 months after inclusion	Rate of therapeutic adjustments : other reason

Locations (1): Diagnosis and Therapeutic Center, Hôtel-Dieu Hospital
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Paris, IDF, France