Open AccessAddition of the Electronic Educational Material to Doctor’s Face-to-Face Education Has No Additive Effects on Hypertension Control: A Randomized Single Blind Study
Author(s) -
John Yang Lee,
Dihua Tang,
Xinhua Xiao,
Xiaoping Liang,
Huihon Piao,
Mingran Xie
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 2090-0392
pISSN - 2090-0384
DOI - 10.1155/2020/8275945
Subject(s) - medicine , phone , face to face , intervention (counseling) , blood pressure , randomized controlled trial , physical therapy , nursing , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology
Background Patient education is effective for HTN treatment. There are many methods of patient education improving HTN control. Are there additive effects of combination of different educational methods for HTN treatment?Objective To assess the effects of addition of the electronic educational material to doctor's face-to-face education for HTN control.Method We designed a randomized single blind study to compare the doctor's face-to-face education alone and its combination with the electronic educational material over the cell phone. Participants were patients with a confirmed diagnosis of primary HTN. Electronic educational material over the cell phone was the intervention. Main measures were standard blood pressure measurements before and after 12 weeks of treatment.Result The baseline characteristics of the intervention and control groups including the age, sex, SBP, DBP, and HTN control rate were not significantly different. After 12 weeks of follow-up, the blood pressure and the HTN control rate seemed worse in the combination group; however, the differences between the intervention group and the control group were not statistically significant.Conclusion There were no additive effects in the combination of the doctor's face-to-face education and the electronic educational material over the cell phone.