Home and Online Management and Evaluation of Blood Pressure (HOME BP) using a digital intervention in poorly controlled hypertension: randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The HOME BP (Home and Online Management and Evaluation of Blood Pressure) trial aimed to test a digital intervention for hypertension management in primary care by combining self-monitoring of blood pressure with guided self-management.

Design

Unmasked randomised controlled trial with automated ascertainment of primary endpoint.

Setting

76 general practices in the United Kingdom.

Participants

622 people with treated but poorly controlled hypertension (>140/90 mm Hg) and access to the internet.

Interventions

Participants were randomised by using a minimisation algorithm to self-monitoring of blood pressure with a digital intervention (305 participants) or usual care (routine hypertension care, with appointments and drug changes made at the discr

SUBMITTER: McManus RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7814507 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature