Key result
Scoping review outlines protocol evaluating access and quality of hypertension primary care in West Africa.
Why the study?
Hypertension is one of the most prevalent non-communicable diseases in West Africa and can be well managed with good primary care, but documented factors influencing access, utilisation, and quality of management need exploration.
This protocol outlines a scoping review to identify barriers and enablers to primary care management of hypertension in West Africa, which will inform future interventions.
Protocol will map barriers to hypertension primary care in West Africa; extends frameworks to guide interventions where control remains poor.
INTRODUCTION: Hypertension, one of the most prevalent non-communicable diseases in West Africa, can be well managed with good primary care. This scoping review will explore what is documented in the literature about factors that influence primary care access, utilisation and quality of management for patients living with hypertension in West Africa. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The scoping review will employ the approach described by Arksey and O'Malley (2005) . The approach has five stages: (1) formulating the research questions, (2) identifying relevant studies, (3) selecting eligible studies, (4) charting the data and (5) collating, summarising and reporting the results. This review will employ the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis extension for scoping reviews to report the results. PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Cairn Info and Google Scholar will be searched for publications from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2023. Studies reported in English, French or Portuguese will be considered for inclusion. Research articles, systematic reviews, observational studies and reports that include information on the relevant factors that influence primary care management of hypertension in West Africa will be eligible for inclusion. Study participants should be adults (aged 18 years or older). Clinical case series/case reports, short communications, books, grey literature and conference proceedings will be excluded. Papers on gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia will be excluded. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This review does not require ethics approval. Our dissemination strategy includes peer-reviewed publications, policy briefs, presentations at conferences, dissemination to stakeholders and intervention co-production forums.
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Amarteyfio et al. (2024) studied Hypertension. Primary care management of hypertension was evaluated on Factors influencing primary care access, utilisation and quality of management. This scoping review protocol outlines a methodology to explore factors influencing primary care access, utilisation, and quality of management for patients with hypertension in West Africa.
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