The Effect of Chronic Care Model Based Education on Disease Management in Hypertensive Patients

Background: This study was conducted to examine the effect of planned educational intervention based on The Chronic Care Model (CCM) on the management of hypertension in patients with hypertension. The Chronic Care Model is a framework for organizing and improving chronic illness care, based on a proactive, planned approach that incorporates patient self-care, provider, and system level interventions. Several instruments have been developed to evaluate the effects of CCM implementation on care and treatment outcomes.The Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC) questionnaire is used in instrument to evalate the delivery of care for patients. Methods: The study was performed a prospective and conducted with a controlled semi-experimental pattern in matched groups. 30 patients including 15 intervention and 15 control group patients matched in terms of socio-demographic features were monitored for six months. The intervention group was trained and monitored by a professional team in line with the components of the model. Life quality scale, hypertension information questions and chronic care assessment scale were applied to both groups at the beginning and in the sixth month of the study. Trial registration: The study was conducted in accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki of 1964, and approved by local authorities and local Bioethics Committees(BC) in participating university hospital. (Ethics committee approval No:B.30.2.EGE.0.20.05.00/OY/649/268 Decision No: 13-3.3/12) Permissions for the use of scale of PACIC and model of CCM were taken via e-mail. Key Words: nursing; chronic care model; hypertension