Intervention: all participants received written information about hypertension and continued to receive care from the clinic Inclusion criteria: aged ≥ 21 years, diagnosed with hypertension by a clinician using local guidelines, prescribed BP‐lowering medication, and with SBP 220 mmHg or DBP > 120 mmHg) who had symptoms suggestive of a hypertensive emergency or were otherwise acutely unwell (who were directly referred to the appropriate clinical service) Proportion prescribed medication for prevention of CVD: 100% prescribed BP‐lowering medication was an inclusion criterion Proportion meeting criteria of 'primary prevention': 78.3% (unpublished information received from authors) Gender (% women): group 1: 72 group 2: 72 group 3: 72
Number analysed: 1372 group 1: 457 group 2: 457 group 3: 458 (intention‐to‐treat analysis using all data available) Number lost to follow‐up/withdrawn: 176 group 1: 61 (reasons: 3 died 2 pregnant 14 lost contact 12 moved 25 unable to attend 5 reason not given) group 2: 51 (reasons: 7 died 2 pregnant 7 lost contact 11 moved 23 unable to attend 1 reason not given) group 3: 64 (reasons: 7 died 5 pregnant 2 participant decision 7 lost contact 14 moved 29 unable to attend) Number randomised: 1372 group 1 (control): 457 group 2 (informational SMS): 457 group 3 (interactive SMS): 458 Setting: outpatient chronic disease services in a public sector clinic, Cape Town, South Africa
0 kommentar(er)
