N° | Steps | Participants |
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1 | Literature review - Selection of items on high blood pressure management and the use of antihypertensive drugs | Work group A: General practitioners (4), public health practitioners (2) |
2 | First round of Delphi survey (27 experts) - First validation of selected items for the booklet | Work group B: Patients (2), general practitioners (11), public health practitioners (2), cardiologist (1), geriatrician (2), psychologist (1), economist (1), pharmacists (2), nurse (1) ethicist (1), pharmacovigilance practitioners (2) and internist (1) |
3 | Development of the initial layout of the booklet | Work group A |
4 | Second round of Delphi survey - Reiteration of equivocal items | Work group B |
5 | Third round of Delphi survey - Achieving expert consensus on items Validation of the 1rst version of the booklet | Work group B |
6 | Independent review of the booklet - Certification of the conformity of the given information with current scientific data and simplification of medical terminology | Anthropologist (1) and independant general practitioner (1) |
7 | Readability assessment (Rudolf Flesch test) and Computer graphics work Validation of the 2nd version of the booklet | Work group A and Computer graphics designer (1) |
8 | Qualitative study in primary care (Observation of consultations and semi-directed individual interviews of patients and general practitioners) – Assessment of understanding and acceptability of the booklet | General practitioners of various populations of patients (7), healthcare assistants (2) and patients (13). Patients from 44 to 86 y: employees (6), liberal profession (1), labourers (4), craftsman (1), intermediate profession (1) |
9 | Linguistic work - in accordance with the principles of controlled language and understandable by the target population | Linguist (1) and Work group A |
10 | Computer graphics work Validation of the 3rd version of the booklet | Computer graphics designer (1) and Work group A |