None listed
Conditions
Interventions
A package of strategies (e.g. Home blood pressure monitoring, motivation interviewing, medication use review, home medicines review (where necessary), patient reminders (SMS, telephone, mail), and general practitioner referral (when needed). This intervention program is for 6 months and will be offered by the pharmacist at baseline, 3 months and 6 months. Each patient is provided with a blood pressure (BP) monitor and advised to carry out home montoring of their blood pressure every 2-3 days.
Sponsors
Monash
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Other
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Using or have used one or more antihypertensive medications (angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin-II receptor antagonists, calcium channel blockers, beta blockers and thiazide diuretics) in the last 6 months, primary hypertension confirmed by the GP, and available for follow-up at 6 months.
Exclusion criteria
Participation in other compliance promotion or medication profiling programs or receipt of a recent home medicines review, unavailable for follow-up, unable to communicate in English, and does not self- administer anti-hypertensive medicines.
Outcome results
None listed