Baseline only: |
1. Demographic questions: including age, race, marital status, occupation, and education |
2. Duration of hypertension [from notes] |
3. Past medical history [from notes and corroborated by patients] |
4. Contraindications to anti-hypertensives |
5. Short orientation memory test [22] |
6. Height |
Baseline and follow-up: |
1. New medical history (in last 6/12Â months) |
2. Blood pressure (sitting plus standing) |
3. Current anti-hypertensive medications including complementary herbal or dietary supplements for BP lowering |
4. Weight and waist circumference |
5. Symptoms part plus short form of Illness Perception Questionnaire [23] |
6. Short-form of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory [24] |
7. EQ-5D 5L [25] |
8. BP measurement preference [26] [Baseline and 12Â m follow up only] |
9. Medication Adherence Rating Scale (MARS) Questionnaire [27] [Baseline and 12Â m follow up only] |
10. Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire [28] [Baseline and 12Â m follow up only] |
11. Stanford Expectations of Treatment Scale (SETS) Items 1–6 [29] [Baseline and 12 m follow up only] |
12. Lifestyle questions: alcohol (Audit-C [30]), diet (Short Food Frequency Questionnaire [31]), exercise (Godin Leisure-Time Exercise Questionnaire [32]), smoking (Smoking tool kit [33]) [Baseline and 12Â m follow up only] |