Patient contributions during primary care consultations for hypertension after self-reporting via a mobile phone self-management support system.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This paper reports on how the clinical consultation in primary care is performed under the new premises of patients' daily self-reporting and self-generation of data. The aim was to explore and describe the structure, topic initiation and patients' contributions in follow-up consultations after eight weeks of self-reporting through a mobile phone-based hypertension self-management support system.

Design

A qualitative, explorative study design was used, examining 20 audio- (n = 10) and video-recorded (n = 10) follow-up consultations in primary care hypertension management, through interaction analysis. Clinical trials registry: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01510301.

Setting

Four primary health care centers in Sweden.

Subjects

Patients with hypertension (n = 2

SUBMITTER: Bengtsson U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5901443 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature