Quality-of-life and beliefs about medication in relation to a therapy adherence intervention in resistant hypertension: the Resistant HYpertension: MEasure to ReaCh Targets trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the impact of personalized feedback on therapy adherence testing results on quality of life and beliefs about medication in patients with resistant hypertension, as well as to identify patient-oriented predictors of therapy adherence.

Methods

This study was a prespecified post hoc analysis of the multicenter randomized controlled trial Resistant HYpertension: MEasure to ReaCh Targets (RHYME-RCT). Patients were randomized to a personalized feedback conversation on measured antihypertensive drug levels additional to standard-of-care, or standard-of-care only. The primary outcomes consisted of EuroQol EQ-5D-5L and Beliefs about Medicine Questionnaire (BMQ) scores at 12 months.

Results

A total of 56 patients with median age 61.5 [25th-75th percentile:

SUBMITTER: Zeijen VJM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11356742 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature