The Effect of Pharmacist Intervention on Blood Pressure Control (AFenPA)

University of Granada (UGR)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Behavioral: Health education, Home blood pressure monitoring

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01233193

DMM01-FAR-10

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to test if a Pharmacist Intervention Program with home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) improves or controls pharmacological adherence and blood pressure levels in hypertensive patients under pharmacological treatment, compared to those who receive usual care in a community pharmacy setting.

Full description

Hypertension is a major health concern worldwide due to its deleterious impact on the population in terms of excessive morbidity and mortality, especially when there is insufficient hypertension control and prevention at the community level.

Enrollment: 140 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients of both genders between the ages of 18 and 80 years, who access the pharmacy to fill their own prescription for hypertension.

Exclusion criteria

• Patient living with an other Hypertensive patient treated with the same medications
• Pregnant women
• Hypertensive patients with levels of systolic/diastolic blood pressure ≥ 180mmHg/110mmHg
• Patient with secondary hypertension, kidney or liver failure
• Patients already included in a care program for hypertensive patients
• Patients with a new treatment for hypertension (less than 1 month)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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140 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group receive an pharmacist intervention (health education, Home Blood Pressure Monitoring and Referral to physician as needed) This group will be followed for 6 months

Treatment:

Behavioral: Health education, Home blood pressure monitoring

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group receive usual care in the community pharmacy