Nurse-Led Motivational Interviewing for Blood Pressure Control
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Individual Motivational Interviewing, Family-Involved Motivational Interviewing, Usual Hypertension Care With Information Brochure.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Hypertension. Basic parameters: from 18 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
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- 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
The Effect of Nurse-Led Individual and Family-Involved Motivational Interviewing on Blood Pressure Control in Patients With Hypertension: A Three-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial
Overview
Hypertension is one of the most important risk factors for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Effective hypertension management requires medication adherence, lifestyle modification, regular blood pressure monitoring, and self-management behaviors. Motivational interviewing is a counseling approach that may support behavior change and improve hypertension management. This study aims to evaluate the effects of nurse-led individual motivational interviewing and family-involved motivational interviewing on blood pressure control in patients with hypertension. The study will be conducted as a single-center, three-arm, parallel-group, randomized controlled trial. A total of 180 patients with hypertension will be randomly assigned to one of three groups: usual care, individual motivational interviewing, or family-involved motivational interviewing. Participants in the intervention groups will receive a 6-week nurse-led motivational interviewing program. In the family-involved motivational interviewing group, a family member who supports hypertension management will also participate in the sessions. Data will be collected at baseline, 6 weeks, and 18 weeks. The primary outcome is systolic blood pressure. Secondary outcomes include diastolic blood pressure, hypertension knowledge level, treatment adherence, and hypertension self-efficacy.
Detailed description
The study intervention is a non-invasive, education- and counseling-based behavioral nursing intervention. Participants in the control group will continue to receive routine hypertension care and will be given a standard hypertension information brochure. Participants in the individual motivational interviewing group will receive nurse-led individual motivational interviewing sessions. Participants in the family-involved motivational interviewing group will receive the same intervention, with the participation of a family member who supports the patient's hypertension management.
The intervention content includes hypertension awareness, individual risk factors, readiness for change, hypertension knowledge, misconceptions and complications, medication adherence, treatment barriers, salt reduction, nutrition behaviors, home blood pressure monitoring, physical activity, weight control, stress management, self-efficacy, problem solving, motivation maintenance, and individualized goal evaluation. Intervention fidelity will be monitored using a session checklist.
Interventions
- Behavioral Individual Motivational Interviewing
The intervention is a structured 6-week nurse-led individual motivational interviewing program. Sessions will focus on hypertension awareness, individual risk factors, readiness for change, hypertension knowledge, misconceptions and complications, medication adherence, treatment barriers, salt reduction, nutrition behaviors, home blood pressure monitoring, physical activity, weight control, stress management, self-efficacy, problem solving, motivation maintenance, and individualized goal evaluat - Behavioral Family-Involved Motivational Interviewing
The intervention is a structured 6-week nurse-led motivational interviewing program delivered with the participation of a family member who supports the patient's hypertension management. The intervention content is the same as the individual motivational interviewing program. The family member will be included to support medication adherence, salt reduction, nutrition behaviors, home blood pressure monitoring, and achievement of weekly goals. - Behavioral Usual Hypertension Care With Information Brochure
Participants will continue to receive routine hypertension care and will be given a standard hypertension information brochure. No structured motivational interviewing session will be provided.
Primary outcome measures
- Systolic Blood Pressure [Time frame: Baseline, 6 weeks, and 18 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (4)
- Diastolic Blood Pressure [Time frame: Baseline, 6 weeks, and 18 weeks]
- Hypertension Knowledge Level Assessed by the Hypertension Knowledge-Level Scale [Time frame: Baseline, 6 weeks, and 18 weeks]
- Treatment Adherence Assessed by the Hill-Bone Hypertension Treatment Adherence Scale [Time frame: Baseline, 6 weeks, and 18 weeks]
- Hypertension Self-Efficacy Assessed by the Hypertension Self-Efficacy Scale [Time frame: Baseline, 6 weeks, and 18 weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Aged 18 years or older
- Diagnosed with hypertension for at least 6 months
- Using antihypertensive medication
- Able to read and understand Turkish
- Conscious and able to communicate
- Providing written informed consent
- Having at least one family member who can support hypertension management and participate in sessions when needed
Exclusion criteria
- Advanced cognitive impairment
- Active psychiatric crisis
- History of a serious cardiovascular event within the last 3 months
- Terminal illness
- Serious physical condition that may prevent regular participation in intervention sessions
- Concurrent participation in another structured education program
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Turkey (Türkiye) · 1 center
- Simav Doc. Dr. Ismail Karakuyu State Hospital — Simav
Publications
- Mehta SJ, Volpp KG, Troxel AB, Teel J, Reitz CR, Purcell A, Shen H, McNelis K, Snider CK, Asch DA. Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring With Social Support for Patients With Hypertension: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jun 3;7(6):e2413515. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.13515. PMID 38829618
- Khadoura KJ, Shakibazadeh E, Mansournia MA, Aljeesh Y, Fotouhi A. Effectiveness of motivational interviewing on medication adherence among Palestinian hypertensive patients: a clustered randomized controlled trial. Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2021 Jun 29;20(5):411-420. doi: 10.1093/eurjcn/zvaa015. PMID 34009313
- Xu J, Gu X, Gu J, Zhao L, Li M, Hong C. Motivational interviewing intervention for the management of hypertension: a meta-analysis. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2025 Jan 20;11:1457039. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1457039. eCollection 2024. PMID 39902088
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07747025 · KSBU-HTN-RCT-2026-01