Health-promoting text messages to patients with hypertension-A randomized controlled trial in Swedish primary healthcare.

ABSTRACT: Due to the high prevalence and great cardiovascular risks of hypertension, we need effective and evidence-based treatment strategies. Health-promoting one-way text messages could be a beneficial complement to antihypertensive drugs. However, this has yet to be proven in a primary healthcare setting. The purpose of this study was to investigate if health-promoting text messages could improve patients' blood pressure in primary care. The PUSHME (Primary care Usage of Health promoting Messages) randomized controlled trial included 401 patients from 10 primary health care centers in southern Sweden. Patients in the intervention group received four text messages weekly for six months along with treatment as usual. The PUSHME study was registered on clinicaltrials.gov (NCT04407962). Patients in

SUBMITTER: Borgstrom Bolmsjo B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11819501 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature