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Study on Impact of Patient-Held Guidelines on Blood Pressure

NCT00148434 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2005-09-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

While patient held guidelines for the management of chronic diseases have been employed in some countries. There is little evidence of their effectiveness in improving patient outcomes. We hypothesised that a patient held guideline on the management of hypertension combined with a specific exhortation to patients to challenge their medical care where the guidelines did not appear to have been applied would improve blood pressure control, lower average blood pressure, lower average cholesterol, increase the appropriate use of statins and aspirin, and have no impact on patient anxiety. Patients were randomised to the guideline or to standard hypertension information. Measures of anxiety were taken at baseline 2 weeks and one year, blood pressure and cholesterol was measured at one year and case notes examined to determine appropriate statin and aspirin usage.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Patient-held guideline for hypertension

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Edinburgh

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ashgrove Research Practice

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Brian McKinstry, MD · University of Edinburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
0 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2002-01-31
Completion
2003-03-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

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