The Effect ''of Follow-up With the Mobile Application'' on Treatment Compliance in Patients With Hypertension

This research was planned as a randomized controlled study in the pre-test post-test evaluation order before and after the mobile application in order to determine the "Effect of Mobile Application Use on Treatment Adherence and Self-Care Management in Patients with Hypertension".

The research was carried out between 22.11.2021-03.01.2022. It is planned to be conducted with patients who applied to the Cardiology Polyclinic of City Hospital and who were diagnosed with essential hypertension at least 1 year ago and met the research criteria.

The sample of the study, on the other hand, will consist of patients aged 18 and over, who were diagnosed at least 1 year ago, who were diagnosed with hypertension, who applied to the hypertension outpatient clinic, who were treated with antihypertensive drugs, who met the inclusion criteria of the study, and who volunteered to participate in the study. G-power program was used for power calculation of the study. Accordingly, it was calculated that at least 30 participants in each group were required for a difference of at least 5% between the control and intervention groups to be significant at the 95% confidence interval for 80% power. When the 10% loss that may occur during the follow-up of the patients is added to this number, it was planned to include at least 33 participants for both groups.

Sample selection in this study; Randomization will be performed by a person who was not involved in the study in the computer environment. Those with odd number of patient registration numbers will be Group 1: Intervention (Training Group), those with even number of patient registration numbers will be Group 2: Control Group.

Group 1: To be followed by the researchers for 4 weeks with a mobile application; This is the training group in which individual motivational messages will be sent to the mobile phones every week for compliance with the diet, exercise and drug therapy of the patients, and the weekly average of blood pressure follow-ups will be monitored over the system.

Group 2: It is the control group whose routine outpatient follow-up will continue and no training is given.

Data Collection Tools to be Used in the Study: Data collection form will be collected with "Hill-Bone Hypertension Treatment Adherence Scale", "Hypertension Self-Care Profile Scale".

Inclusion criteria

• Volunteering to participate in the study,
• Being followed in the outpatient clinic with the diagnosis of hypertension for the last 1 year,
• Using antihypertensive medication
• Being a smart mobile phone user,
• 18 years of age and over
• Not having any communication problems such as seeing or hearing,
• Ability to read and write

Exclusion criteria

• Those who lost their lives during the research,
• Those who want to leave the research voluntarily at any stage of the research,
• Patients who fill in the forms incompletely and have missing data will be excluded from the study.
• Being illiterate
• Having communication problems such as seeing and hearing,
• Not being willing to participate in the study,