MedTrace Logo

The Effect of a Targeted Video Intervention on Beliefs Regarding Hypertension

NCT01411956 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 43

Last updated 2011-08-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Researchers have linked media messages such as television programs to multiple problematic health behaviors. The narrative style of many television programs-involving a plot, recurrent characters, entertaining situations, and familiar settings-makes them compelling and likely contributes to the powerful influence these programs can have on behavior. However, narrative messages are not frequently utilized for prosocial purposes. In particular, health education embedded in a narrative context has been neither commonly utilized nor carefully evaluated. Using constructs from two complementary theories of health behavior, family physicians in a large metropolitan region have developed a situation comedy entitled "White Coats" that aims to provide quality patient education. The program currently airs on a local public access channel. The objective of this project is to evaluate the effect of one particular episode of "White Coats" on patient beliefs regarding hypertension.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

24-minute video episode of patient education TV sitcom "White Coats"

The series features a fictional married couple of Family Medicine physicians who work in the same practice, located in our community. In both their professional and private lives and, in moments both humorous and serious, these doctors teach patients about a wide variety of health topics. The intervention episode addressing hypertension will focus on three different patient-physician plot lines, which were developed to specifically address each of the beliefs about hypertension highlighted in the theoretical model (susceptibility, seriousness, barriers, self-efficacy and outcome efficacy.).

OTHER

Placebo video

The control group watched a 25-minute patient education video on depression.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • American Academy of Family Physicians

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jennifer L Middleton, MD MPH FAAFP · University of Pittsburgh Department of Family Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-10-31
Primary Completion
2010-01-31
Completion
2010-01-31

More Related Trials

Entities

Diseases

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.

View NCT01411956 on ClinicalTrials.gov