Community-based comprehensive intervention in aiding high blood pressure patients to reach target blood pressure

Objective: To assess the role of community-based comprehensive intervention in helping patients with high blood pressure(HBP) to reach target blood pressure.Methods: Five hundred and sixty subjects with hypertension were enrolled in the study,consisting of 280 outpatients and 280 community patients.The outpatients were given only the regular therapy to control the blood pressure,while the community patients received comprehensive intervention therapy including health education,drug treatment,behavioral and psychological treatments,and social supervision.All the patients were followed up for six months,and then the rates of reaching target blood pressure were compared between the two groups.Results: The rate of reaching target blood pressure was significant higher in the community-based comprehensive intervention group than that in the outpatients(P<0.05).Conclusions: Community-based comprehensive intervention effectively enhances the patients cognition to the disease and increases the rate of reaching target blood pressure.