Intensification of Care to Improve Adherence to Anti-hypertensives (HyperCare)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01331369 |
Recruitment Status
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Completed
First Posted
: April 8, 2011
Last Update Posted
: April 11, 2017
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Medication Adherence | Behavioral: Intensification of Care Other: Usual Care | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 243 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Health Services Research |
Official Title: | Intensification of Care to Improve Adherence to Anti-hypertensives in Primary Care: a Pragmatic Clinical Trial. |
Study Start Date : | November 2010 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | December 2011 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | April 2012 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Active Comparator: Control
Usual care. It means routine medical care that include free demand consultation and free medicines.
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Other: Usual Care
Usual care provided (medical and/or nurse consultation and medicines)
Other Name: Usual
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Experimental: Intervention
Intensification of care. Besides routine medical care that include free demand consultation and free medicines, subjects were invited to have 6 structured medical encounters based on a social-psychological approach. Doctors must follow a protocol to conduct the encounter that have around 30 minutes each.
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Behavioral: Intensification of Care
Usual provided care plus social-psychological intervention: 6 consultation with doctors and 9 with community health workers, both oriented by protocol.
Other Name: Comprehensive Care
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- Change in the proportion of people adherent to treatment - MMAS-8 [ Time Frame: at basal and 3, 6, 9 and 12 months ]It will be measure by "Moriski Medication Adherence Scale 8 item", translated and validated in Brazil. MMAS scores were trichotomized previously into the following 3 levels of adherence: high adherence (score, 8), medium adherence (score, 6 to <8), and low adherence (score, <6).
- Change in the proportion of people adherent to treatment - QAM-Q [ Time Frame: at basal and 3, 6, 9 and 12 months ]It will be measure by "Questionário de Adesão a Medicamentos -Qualiaids" 3 item, an structured questionnaire developed and validated in Brazil. Non-adherence was accepted if respondent doesn't take 80% of his medicines or if he/she presents any errors on the process (time, jumps..)
- Means difference and/or risk ratio between and within groups of clinical outcomes [ Time Frame: at basal and 3, 6, 9 and 12 months ]It will be evaluated mean blood pressure, proportion of complications, hospitalization and death in each group.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- persons with hypertension aged 18 years and older
Exclusion Criteria:
- those with physical or mental impaired that cannot go to health care units or cannot answer a questionnaire
- pregnants

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01331369
Brazil | |
Family Health Units - Unique Health System | |
Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil |
Principal Investigator: | Ernani S Helena, PhD | Regional University of Blumenau |
Additional Information:
Responsible Party: | Ernani Tiaraju de Santa Helena, Professor, Universidade de Blumenau |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01331369 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
FURB 2010/01 |
First Posted: | April 8, 2011 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | April 11, 2017 |
Last Verified: | April 2017 |
Keywords provided by Ernani Tiaraju de Santa Helena, Universidade de Blumenau:
adherence compliance persistence drop out abandon |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Antihypertensive Agents |