None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a community-based medication counseling service in enhancing compliance to antihypertensive medications among patients in primary care settings. It is hypothesized that this intervention is effective in enhancing medication compliance among patients prescribed antihypertensive agents for the management of hypertension.
Interventions
Standardized community-based medication counseling service by community pharmacists to enhance antihypertensive medication compliance will be delivered once at baseline, lasting for 10-20 minutes. This includes addressing participant's concern and uncertainties in taking medications, and reinforcing relevant knowledge on the chronic disease they are suffering from. Participants will receive a comprehensive pamphlet summarizing the content of medication counseling and motivated to enhance complia
Standardized community-based medication counseling service by community pharmacists to enhance antihypertensive medication compliance will be delivered once at baseline, lasting for 10-20 minutes. This includes addressing participant's concern and uncertainties in taking medications, and reinforcing relevant knowledge on the chronic disease they are suffering from. Participants will receive a comprehensive pamphlet summarizing the content of medication counseling and motivated to enhance compliance to antihypertensive agents. During the 6-month study period, they will be offered free-of-charge telephone consultations with community pharmacists at 3 and 6-month after baseline.
Sponsors
WONG Chi Sang, Martin
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1. Aged 18 years or older; 2. Taking long-term antihypertensive medications 3. Not previously received any community-based intervention programmes on medication adherence; 4. Assessed as having suboptimal compliance to the antihypertensive medication, as assessed by the Morisky self-reported adherence questionnaire. 5. Consent to adhere to the group of intervention they are allocated to.
Exclusion criteria
1. Inability of the patient to communicate and understand Cantonese; 2. Medical conditions rendering the patient not mentally capable to participate in this study.
Outcome results
None listed