A Feasibility Study of the Impact on Blood Pressure Control of Supplementing Community Pharmacist Services With Structured Information on Blood Pressure and Its Treatment
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 56
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Changes in systolic or diastolic blood pressure
研究概览
简要总结
Hypertension is a major health problem, however its control is unsatisfactory. One of the reasons for such a high prevalence of this disease includes poor patient compliance to treatment. Approximately 30 % of newly diagnosed hypertensive patients stop taking their blood pressure medication by six months and 50% by 12 months.
The UK government is keen to encourage community pharmacists to play an active role in participation of services that can improve patient adherence to their medications. The New Medicines Service (NMS) and targeted Medicines Use Reviews (MUR) are established services which fund community pharmacists to review and explain medicine use to patients, with hypertension a common condition for which advice is given within these schemes. Within these schemes, advice is verbal and unstructured, with no specific written information provided on drugs or the disease being treated.
This study aims to determine whether structured information provided to participants verbally and in writing by community pharmacists about blood pressure and current medicine(s) within NMS and targeted MURs will be retained and will be associated with improved hypertension control. Participants will be recruited from people eligible for NMS and MURs and attending community pharmacies.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •18 or over 2) male or female 3) Have been started on any blood pressure medication
排除标准
- •Patients with English language problems
研究组 & 干预措施
Usual pharmacy care
Participants will not receive any structured written education on hypertension and its treatment
usual pharmacy care plus structured information
Participants will be provided with validated verbal and written information on hypertension and its treatment, including information about class (es) of anti-hypertensive medication(s) used by each patient, and their common side-effects. The written material will be based on validated patient information leaflets from the British Heart Foundation and the Blood Pressure Association.
干预措施: Written and verbal patient education on hypertension and its treatment (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Changes in systolic or diastolic blood pressure
时间窗: 1 year (trial would be stopped at 26 weeks if it is not possible to recruit any further participants
Systolic and diastolic blood pressure will be measured and recorded in mm Hg using OMRON blood pressure monitors
次要结局
- change in the knowledge of hypertension(one year(trial would be stopped at 26 weeks if it is not possible to recruit any further participants))
研究者
Ejaz Cheema
PhD student
University of Warwick