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Understanding Health Care Information for African Americans With High Blood Pressure

NCT01389037 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 198

Last updated 2017-12-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This clinical trial focuses on helping African Americans with high blood pressure to manage their disease. The study will target their ability to read and understand health information (also called health literacy). The research method relies on community participation in equal partnership with the researchers to provide interactive workshops and home blood pressure self-monitoring with the assistance of telephone counseling by community health workers.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Health Literacy-focused Self-help

Weekly 2-hour sessions over 6 weeks followed by 12 month follow-up with home blood pressure self monitoring with telephone counseling by community health workers.

BEHAVIORAL

Delayed Intervention Control

Given pamphlets on the importance of high blood pressure control and offered weekly workshops. This group will be offered the intervention at the conclusion of data collection.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Benita Walton-Moss, DNS · Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-10-31
Primary Completion
2014-06-30
Completion
2014-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases
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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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