In:
The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, Wiley, Vol. 17, No. 8 ( 2015-08), p. 638-643
Kurzfassung:
Home blood pressure monitoring ( HBPM ) is increasingly commonly performed, but the concordance between patient HBPM measurement technique and prevailing recommendations has not been well‐assessed according to the literature. The authors performed a multicentric survey to evaluate the degree of patients' adherence to current recommendations on HBPM , and investigate potential predictors of a higher‐quality self‐measurement. A structured questionnaire was administered to 725 Italian outpatient hypertensive patients (mean age, 52.2±14.4 years). Overall, ≥10 recommended procedures were followed by 52.8% of the participants; only 1.0% followed all recommendations. A total of 49.7% of participants rested for ≥5 minutes before the measurement, 36.8% recorded BP more than once in each measurement session, and 34.3% used a chair or bed saddle to support their back. Less than 40% of the patients received some form of training by health professionals. After multivariate analysis, patients receiving/reading instructions showed higher‐quality HBPM ( P 〈 .01). The accuracy of HBPM needs to be improved, and more efforts should be devoted to provide patient training on HBPM , especially on the less‐frequently followed recommendations.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
1524-6175
,
1751-7176
DOI:
10.1111/jch.2015.17.issue-8
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Wiley
Publikationsdatum:
2015
ZDB Id:
2058690-5