NCT00921791

Efficacy of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring (MONITOR Study)

Efficacy of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring to Improve Blood Pressure Control: a Randomized Controlled Trial With Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurement

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 136 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

High blood pressure is the main risk factor for cardiovascular disease worldwide,but its control rate is unsatisfactory. Home Blood Pressure Monitoring (HBPM) with automatic oscillometric devices and pharmaceutical care have been proposed as interventions to increase therapeutic compliance and to guide treatment decisions. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of HBPM and of pharmaceutical care in blood pressure control measured through 24h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM).

Detailed description

Home Blood Pressure Monitoring (HBPM) and Pharmaceutical care have been proposed to improve therapeutic compliance and to guide treatment decisions, but their effects on BP control are still under debate. This is a factorial randomized controlled trial including adult hypertensive patients under drug treatment but with office BP and 24h ABPM uncontrolled. Participants will be allocated to one of four groups: HBPM; HBPM and Pharmaceutical care; Pharmaceutical care; or control. All participants will receive usual care for high blood pressure. Participants will be followed for 60 days.

Conditions

• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	HBPM	Automatic oscillometric device for home blood pressure measurement and usual care.
DEVICE	HBPM and Pharmaceutical care	Automatic oscillometric device for blood pressure measurement at home and consultations with the pharmacists
BEHAVIORAL	Pharmaceutical care	consultations with the pharmacists
OTHER	Usual care	Consultation with the physician.

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-04-01
• Primary completion: 2009-01-01
• Completion: 2009-06-01
• First posted: 2009-06-16
• Last updated: 2009-06-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil