Text message-based lifestyle intervention in primary care patients with hypertension: a randomized controlled pilot trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the feasibility of a randomized controlled pilot study with lifestyle-promoting text messages as a treatment for hypertension in primary care.

Design

Randomized controlled pilot trial.

Setting

Three primary health care centers in southern Sweden.

Subjects

Sixty patients aged 40-80 years with hypertension were included.

Main outcome measures

Feasibility of the pilot study, i.e. recruitment rate, dropout rate and eligibility criteria. Secondary outcomes were change in blood pressure and other cardiovascular risk factors.

Methods

Thirty participants were randomized to the intervention group with four lifestyle-promoting text messages sent every week for six months. The control group received usual care. The baseline and follow-u

SUBMITTER: Bolmsjo BB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7470149 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature