Adherence to Blood Pressure Diaries With Personalized Visuals

Medical University of Vienna

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neurovascular Disorder

Treatments: Other: Conventional blood pressure diary; Other: Inclusion of patient-provided pictures into blood pressure diaries

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06189378

1249/2023

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial randomizes patients with a neurovascular diagnosis to a type of blood pressure diary for secondary stroke prevention (conventional blood pressure diary or blood pressure diary including patient-provided images). Outcomes include adherence and patient-reported outcomes.

Full description

In this prospective trial, the investigators randomized persons with diagnoses of stroke or transitoric ischemic attack into two groups: (i) 10 patients received a personalized blood pressure diary with pictures of their choosing. (ii) 10 patients received a blood pressure diary without photographs. The investigators instructed participants in either group to document their blood pressure at home twice daily over twenty-eight days.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosis of TIA or stroke (ischemic or hemorrhagic) upon admission.

Exclusion criteria

• Modified Rankin Scale score of ≥4 at inclusion
• Inability to provide informed consent
• Pre-existing legal guardianship.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Conventional blood pressure diary

Active Comparator group

Description:

Blood pressure diaries consisted of tables including columns for date, time as well as systolic and diastolic blood pressure respectively (1 page for 1 week) printed on the right-hand pages of an A5 (ISO 216 format) booklet.

Treatment:

Other: Conventional blood pressure diary

Blood pressure diary including patient-provided pictures

Experimental group

Description:

In the interventional arm pictures chosen by patients were provided over a secure online connection by patients in this group and inserted into the left-hand-pages of the blood pressure diaries.

Treatment:

Other: Inclusion of patient-provided pictures into blood pressure diaries