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In general, chronic disease without symptoms such as hypertension, the treatment compliance is relative low and is difficult to increase. The low compliance is related to poor prognosis. There are many factors that effect to compliance of antihypertensive drug. Education is one factor that can be controlled by doctors. Therefore, in this study, the compliance of the patients in 3 groups of active training group, passive training group, and no training group (usual treatment group) will be compared to evaluate the effect of training for controlling of hypertension.
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Primary objective - The compliance of each group for the antihypertensive drug is evaluated and compared.
The patients are allocated to three groups; active training group, passive training group, no training group (usual treatment group) and training is performed as described below.
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Timelines FPFV : Jan, 2008 LPLV: Dec. 2008
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This clinical trial is multi center, prospective, randomized, open, observational study.
This study is to compare the compliance for antihypertensive drugs according to different method of patient training and the observation period per patient is 6 month. There is no fixed visit date and the visits are made according to patient's periodic treatment schedules.
To come up with representative and reliable nation wide statistical data, from hospitals nation wide patient who receive drugs (ACE-I, ARB, β-Blocker, CCB, Diuretic) for blood pressure lowering purpose according to the prescription patterns of investigator will be registered.
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No. of centers: 20 general hospitals No. of patients: 1,062 patients
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1,062 participants in 3 patient groups
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