Abstract
Shared decision making (SDM) improves health outcomes by providing individualized nursing interventions to patients and educating and empowering them to actively participate in health. However, hypertensive patients who require self-management do not actively participate in the SDM process. This scoping review aims to investigate the available information on SDM to self- management programs for hypertensive patients. The proposed scoping review protocol will be conducted using the Arksey and O’Malley methodological framework, following the Joanna Briggs Institute’s methodology for scoping reviews. Multiple databases will be searched, including the MEDLINE (PubMed), Embase, Cochrane Library. Papers’ titles, abstracts, and full text will predominantly be screened by one researcher with a second researcher. Data will be extracted using a customized table developed in collaboration with the research team, and presented in tabular format, arranged thematically. In the scoping review, studies involving the self- management program applied for hypertensive patients with two or more of the components of the intervention are included. And in the SDM process, studies in which healthcare providers provide various options for patients’ self- management and set health goals in consideration of patients’ preferences and values will be included.