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Prevalence, Awareness and Management of Hypertension in Acute Care Personnel

NCT01655654 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 160

Last updated 2020-03-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The primary purpose of this study is to identify the percentage of health care workers working in an acute care hospital who have high blood pressure, to determine the awareness of their blood pressure status, and to see how well it is managed. Study participants will come from the following three distinctly different types of departments: telemetry (clinical), non-telemetry (clinical), and non-direct patient care staff. All study participants are offered educational information surrounding high blood pressure and review the recommendation for their primary care engagement. Study participants with high blood pressure will be asked to continue in the study for up to 6 months. It is intended that each study participant who continues will take their blood pressure three times a day and record the results in a study provided diary. Each study participant should also make some of the suggested changes that promote a healthier lifestyle including exercising, improving their diet, and seeing their primary care provider. It is the thought that these changes will reduce the study participant's blood pressure. The secondary purpose is to determine the effect shift work has on these hospital employees and the potential positive effects of the three interventions.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Physical activity

This intervention includes cardiorespiratory exercise, resistance exercise, flexibility exercise and neuromotor exercise.

BEHAVIORAL

Dietary

Make at least one positive dietary change including or similar to a DASH diet snack substitution.

OTHER

Primary care provider visit

Subjects with hypertension will be asked to visit their primary care provider seeking treatment options. If a subject does not have a primary care provider then they will be encouraged to obtain one and seek medical treatment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Providence Health & Services

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dan Donahue, M.Ed. · Providence Health and Services

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-08-31
Primary Completion
2013-07-31
Completion
2013-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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