A 4-hour educational course on hypertension improved knowledge scores among primary care physicians and nurses, with a mean score increase of 6.33 points.
Does a 4-hour educational course on hypertension improve knowledge among primary care physicians and nurses?
A 4-hour educational course on hypertension significantly improved knowledge among primary care physicians and nurses.
Mean Difference: 6.33
Absolute Event Rate: 15% vs 9%
Objective: Evaluate the usefulness in learning the approach to Hypertension for primary care physicians and nurses through 4 hours continued course. Adherence can improve if health professionals actualize their knowledge avoiding therapeutic inertia. Design and method: Pre–post interventional educational study. Three nation-renowned experts in Hypertension collaborated in the design of theoretical sessions. Two are family physicians and one a nurse specialized. The session was given by one of the family physicians and the nurse. The training groups were physicians and nurses working in a semirural health center who asked for an improvement in their manage of the hypertension. In our national society of family medicine, the hypertension groups had previously designed a form with 20 statements that can be rated as true, false or unknown. The participants were asked to answer at the beginning of the game and at the end, and their results were compared between the initial and final stages. Results: 21 healthcare professionals (10 nurses and 11 physicians, only 1 nurse and 5 physicians were specialists in family medicine, another physician was pharmacologist, and one nurse was in geriatrics, the rest declared no specialty) participated in 2 sessions of the activity and answered the test at the beginning and 20 afterwards. The median of the previous scores was 9 (minimum 4, maximum 15) and of the subsequent scores 15 (9 and 20 respectively). Regarding the paired data, all evaluated participants improved their knowledge (mean 6.33, minimum 1, maximum 9). The session was valued with an overall 4.86 in a 1 to 5 Likert's satisfaction scale. Conclusions: The activity seems to provide learning for all participants; we are working to compare different kinds of sessions to get evidence for the most efficient ways of hypertension training among health professionals.
Serrat-Costa et al. (2026) studied Hypertension (n=21). Educational course on hypertension vs. Pre-intervention baseline was evaluated on Knowledge score on a 20-statement form (mean difference 6.33). A 4-hour educational course on hypertension improved knowledge scores among primary care physicians and nurses, with a mean score increase of 6.33 points.