Impact of Lifestyle Changes on Blood Pressure Control in Hypertensive Patients

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Name of the university
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Clinical question: Do lifestyle changes have positive impact on blood pressure control than
pharmacological intervention in hypertensive patients.
PICO Question
P (Population) Hypertensive patients
I (Intervention) Lifestyle changes
C (Comparison) Patients undergoing pharmacological
interventions
O (Outcome) Blood pressure control
Search strategy
Electronic and the online sources provides with a large number of resources and hence is a good
place for the initiation of literature search (Walliman, 2017). The search was initiated by
employing some of the online resources like the Medline, CINAHL, Google scholar and normal
university library search. Some of the key words used for searching suitable papers are the
“Hypertension”, “life style changes”, “blood pressure control” were used. Boolean operators like
AND and OR had be used in order to that combine and contrast the keywords.

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Inclusion and the exclusion criteria
Proper inclusion and exclusion criteria has to be taken in order to set the boundaries of a
literature review and thus help to narrow down the resources that are available online (Clemence,
Doise, & Lorenzi-Cioldi, 2014). The implementation of the inclusion and the exclusion criteria
has to be reasonable and the justified for ensuring the validity of the search.
Initial Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
Inclusion Exclusion
Primary research Systematic reviews
Language: English
Country Australia
Hypertension AND
lifestyle interventions OR non pharmacological
interventions OR salt intake
Hospital OR inpatient

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Year of publication: 2013 to 2018 Older than 2012
Peer reviewed journal article
Research methods: Qualitative and
quantitative
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Initially Google was used to get a detailed number of number of research papers available online.
Finally among five suitable this paper had been chosen for the critical review.
Article: Yang, M. H., Kang, S. Y., Lee, J. A., Kim, Y. S., Sung, E. J., Lee, K. Y., ... Lee, S. Y.
(2017). The Effect of Lifestyle Changes on Blood Pressure Control among Hypertensive
Patients. Korean journal of family medicine, 38(4), 173–180. doi:10.4082/kjfm.2017.38.4.173