Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: A Multicenter, Assessor-blinded, Controlled, Randomised, Parallel Group, Superiority, Pragmatic Trial Assessing the Effectiveness of Daily SMS-reminders in Pharmaceutical Care of Older Adults With Hypertension on Improving Patients' Adherence to Blood Pressure-lowering Medication
Brief Summary: By conducting the SPPA trial we try to find out, whether personalized Short Message Service (SMS) reminders of blood pressure-lowering medication can effectively increase patients' adherence to blood pressure-lowering medication. Additionally, we also evaluate their effect on patients' systolic blood pressure control.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age ≥ 55 years (from the day of the 55. birthday inclusive)
* Diagnosis of primary (essential) hypertension (I10 according to International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10))
* Filling of blood pressure-lowering prescription(s) at trial recruitment (Visit 1)
* Duration of antihypertensive drug treatment for at least 1 year without any discontinuation
* Ownership of a mobile phone for personal use with the ability to open and read SMS
* Understanding of Slovak language on native-speaker level
* Informed consent for participation in the clinical trial and personally signed Informed Consent Form

Exclusion Criteria:

Exclusion criteria assessed prior to patient enrolment (by trial pharmacists):

* Planned hospitalisation during the trial period (3 months)
* Biological impairment affecting the ability to read the SMS (e.g. loss of vision, visual field cuts, aphasia)
* Living in the same household with another trial participant
* Participation in another clinical trial

Exclusion criteria assessed after patient enrolment (by trial pharmacists and project leader):

* Hospitalisation during the trial period
* Patient informs he/she won't be able to participate in the trial
* Withdrawal of Informed Consent
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients who had been on ARV therapy at the Chulaimbo Rural Health Center for a maximum of three months and providing consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients who had been on ARV therapy for more than 3 months.
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Enrolled in one of three Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (DVAMC) Primary Care Clinics affiliated with the hospital or the Raleigh Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) for at least one year;
* At least one visit to a primary care physician (PCP) at the Raleigh CBOC or Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) associated primary care clinics in the previous 12 months;
* Outpatient diagnostic code for hypertension and/or hypercholesterolemia and lab values indicating either poorly controlled BP levels (\>150/90 Hg) AND/OR LDL (\>130mg/dl) in the previous year.

Exclusion Criteria:

* diagnosed with metastatic cancer,
* diagnosed with dementia,
* active diagnosis of psychosis,
* treated with dialysis,
* most recent creatinine lab level \>2.5 or no creatinine lab value within past year
* hospitalized for a stroke, heart attack, or had surgery for blocked arteries in the past 3 months,
* participating in another interventional trial,
* not currently receiving care at the Durham VAMC or the Raleigh CBOC
* resident of a nursing home,
* hard time seeing type/printing on books, magazines articles, etc.
* hard time hearing on the telephone
* limited/no access to telephone
* plans to move medical care from DVAMC or Raleigh CBOC in next 12 months
* CVD care is currently being managed by a clinical pharmacist
* HbA1C value in the last 90day \> 10% and patient is currently not on an insulin regimen.
D: Inclusion Criteria for Clinics:

* The clinic is affiliated with the Remediar+Redes program.
* The clinic is located in urban poor areas according to the 2010 census data.
* The clinic has ≥1000 outpatient visits each month, so that sufficient participants can be recruited.
* The minimum distance between the selected clinics will be 10 kilometers to minimize the risk for contamination of the intervention.
* Physician visits and essential medications are free of charge to patients under all circumstances.
* The clinic has a high number of prescriptions for antihypertensive medications.
* The clinic employs community health workers.
* The clinic has general practitioners and nurses.
* The clinic has a history of good performance in the Remediar+Redes program.
* The clinic performs blood draws on patients when appropriate.

Inclusion Criteria for Participants:

* Patients aged ≥21 years who received primary care from the participating clinics and have hypertension ( SBP ≥140 mmHg and/or DBP ≥90 mmHg on at least 2 separate visits) and their spouses (with or without hypertension) and/or any adult hypertensive family members (age ≥21 years) living in the same household will be included.
* Hypertension patients and their spouses and/or family members must be available for the first baseline nurse home visit.
* The index patient must have a cell phone that receives text messages.
* The family's homes must be located within 10 kilometers from the clinic.

Exclusion Criteria for Participants:

* Hypertension patients who do not have a spouse or another adult with hypertension in the household.
* Plans to move from the neighborhood in the next two years
* Pregnant women or women who are planning to become pregnant in the next two years
* Persons who are bed-bound
* Persons who cannot give informed consent
* Persons with an arm circumference \>50 cm

Answer: A