Effect of Counselling Using Lifestyle Medicine Assessment Tool on Hypertensive Patients
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Lifestyle Intervention.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Lifestyle Intervention, Lifestyle Modification, Hypertension, Counselling. Basic parameters: 18 years — 65 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Pakistan
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Effect of Counselling of Patients With Hypertension Presenting in Family Medicine Clinics Using Lifestyle Medicine Assessment Tool.
Overview
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if knowing and understanding a patient's daily habits and then giving clear advice on what changes to make can help control blood pressure better than the routine way of advising people with high blood pressure. The main questions it aims to answer are: * To learn if using the Lifestyle Medicine Assessment tool (A 21-item questionnaire) to understand the current lifestyle of people with hypertension and guide them accordingly, helps in lowering blood pressure more, as compared to routine advice? * To see if this way of guiding patients is more satisfactory for them then routine advice? Researchers will compare two groups of people with hypertension. One will be guided after assessing their current lifestyle with the Lifestyle Medicine Assessment Tool and one will be given routine guidance. The researchers will then see which group had better blood pressure control. Participants will be: * Asked a few questions about their lifestyle and then they will be advised accordingly on ways to make it better. * They will also be asked to measure their blood pressure at home and bring the record with them when they come for their doctor's visit.
Interventions
- Behavioral Lifestyle Intervention
The intervention includes using the lifestyle Medicine Assessment Tool (LMA), a 21-item questionnaire, to assess the patient's current lifestyle and deliver structured counselling according to their scores in each domain. To keep the counselling consistent and standardized throughout the study a checklist will be formulated according to the current guidelines on lifestyle modification for hypertensive patients, consisting of counselling items pertaining to each domain, and it will be followed fo
Primary outcome measures
- Change in systolic blood pressure [Time frame: From enrolment to the end of follow-up at three months]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Patient satisfaction [Time frame: At the end of three-month follow-up]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Adult patients aged 18-65 yrs with diagnosed primary/essential hypertension, defined as two or more clinic BP readings of ≥130/80 (ACC/AHA Guidelines).
- If taking anti hypertensives, then on a stable regime i.e. no recent medication change for at least ≥4 weeks.
- Willing and able to participate in the study.
Exclusion criteria
- Diagnosed secondary hypertension.
- Moderate to severe CKD (eGFR <60 ml/min/1.73m2).
- Moderate to severe ischemic heart disease.
- Diabetes Mellitus requiring insulin.
- Major psychiatric disorder such as dementia or schizophrenia.
- Pregnancy or Lactating mother.
- Unable to participate in study/ Severe mobility limitation.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
Study locations
Pakistan · 1 center
- The Indus Hospital Karachi — Karachi
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07449962 · IHHN_IRB_2026_02_018