NCT00453037

Effects of a Structured Education Program on Blood Pressure in Essential Hypertensive Patients

Effects of a Structured Education Program on Blood Pressure in Essential Hypertensive Patients and Effects of a Reminder Program for Physicians to Guide Optimal Therapy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 256 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medical University of Graz · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of a structured educational program for hypertensive patients. The program was developed at the University of Dusseldorf, Germany. The contents of the program are as follows: teaching of the background of hypertension, techniques of self estimation of blood pressure, life style and dietary habits, some information concerning the different pharmacological properties to treat hypertension

Detailed description

see brief description section

Conditions

• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	structured educational program	structured education and evaluation of hypertensive patients in a design similar to the DAFNE study design. Behavioural intervention follows the Dusseldorf-educational program
BEHAVIORAL	participation in the educational program after 6 months	Control group consisting of patients randomly assigned to participate in the educational program 6 months later than the active group

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-03-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2007-03-28
• Last updated: 2011-01-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Austria