Key result
Survey evaluates provider perceptions of home blood pressure monitoring acceptability and feasibility during pregnancy.
Why the study?
Home blood pressure monitoring in pregnancy is rarely performed in low-resource settings such as Ghana, and obstetric provider buy-in is essential for its successful adoption and impact on clinical decision making.
Do obstetric providers perceive patient-performed home blood pressure monitoring as acceptable, feasible, and appropriate for pregnant women in urban Ghana?
Cross-Sectional
No
Do obstetric providers perceive patient-performed home blood pressure monitoring as acceptable, feasible, and appropriate for pregnant women in urban Ghana?
Obstetric providers in urban Ghana view patient-performed home blood pressure monitoring as acceptable, feasible, and appropriate for pregnant women.
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Supports local implementation studies in urban Ghana; leaves open effects on maternal outcomes.
Delayed diagnosis of pre- eclampsia contributes to maternal mor-bidity and mortality. 1 Patient- performed home blood pressure (BP) monitoring in pregnancy is increasingly used in high- income coun-tries; 2,3 however, it is rarely performed in low- resource settings including Ghana. The “buy- in” of obstetric providers is essential to the successful adoption of home BP monitoring, because patient-measured BP values will only change clinical decision making if they are accepted and valued by providers. Therefore, before implementation of home BP monitoring among pregnant women in Ghana, this study was conducted to assess provider- reported acceptability, feasibility, and appropriateness. This cross- sectional study was conducted at the Korle Hospital (KBTH), a tertiary hospital in urban Ghana (ethical KBTH- STC 00098/2021). Participants were doctors who provide obstetric care at KBTH, defined as obstetrics/gynecology consultants, obstetrics/gynecology residents, and house officers rotating with obstetrics/gynecology. An electronic survey was dis-tributed to doctors' groups on an online WhatsApp platform, with a 49.3% response rate. Acceptability, feasibility, and appropriateness
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Lawrence et al. (2022) conducted a cross-sectional in Pre-eclampsia / pregnancy hypertension. Patient-performed home blood pressure monitoring in pregnancy was evaluated on Provider-reported acceptability, feasibility, and appropriateness of home blood pressure monitoring. Home blood pressure monitoring in pregnancy was evaluated for provider-perceived acceptability, feasibility, and appropriateness via an electronic survey (49.3% response rate; results truncated).
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