Table 3 Data Collection at Study Clinics

Baseline Only:

   1. Demographic questions; including race, occupation, marital status, employment, education,

   2. Length of hypertension

   3. Past medical history

   4. Contraindications/intolerance to antihypertensives

   5. Short orientation memory concentration test[29]

   6. Height

   7. Current self monitoring behaviour

Baseline and subsequent follow up

   1. Current antihypertensive medications

   2. Symptom section of the Illness Perception Questionnaire [30]

   3. Weight

   4. New medical history (in last 6 months)

   5. Preference for blood pressure measurement methods

   6. Beliefs About Medicines Questionnaire [31]

   7. Medication Compliance sub-scale of the Hill-Bone Compliance to High Blood Pressure Medication Scale [32]

   8. Short-form of the State-Trait Anxiety inventory [33]

   9. EQ5-D [34]

   10. Godin's Exercise Questionnaire [35]

   11. Questions on smoking, alcohol consumption and salt intake

   12. Economic data (referrals, consultations, resource use, willingness to pay)

   13. Blood Pressure (sitting plus standing at baseline only)