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Mindfulness Attitude to Deliver Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension

NCT02830529 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 31

Last updated 2020-12-17

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Summary

African Americans with prehypertension have a 35% greater risk of progressing to hypertension than whites. Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) is a gold standard intervention for hypertension self-management. However, the barriers to self-management of hypertension reported by AAs include stress, including perceived stress related to racism/discrimination; perceived lack of control over getting hypertension in the future; limited social support; and low motivation to change behaviors. Activating the emotional and task areas of the brain are hypothesized to improve self-management behaviors. The purpose of this study is to test the effects of a promising new self-management intervention for AAs, a Mindfulness Attitude to Deliver the Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension (MAD DASH) that departs from conventional interventions to address prehypertension by combining two self-management interventions (Mindfulness and DASH) in a group setting. Teaching mindfulness; a form of meditation and the DASH diet to participants is expected to result in a reduction in blood pressure as compared to usual care or DASH diet education alone.

Conditions

  • Prehypertension

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

MAD DASH

Participants were taught mindfulness meditation including body scan, loving kindness meditation and breathing exercises. The diet education component included lecture on reading labels, low cost healthy meal preparation, and dietary consultation regarding personal strengths and self-identified areas of improvement.

BEHAVIORAL

DASH diet education

The diet education component included lecture on reading labels, low cost healthy meal preparation, and dietary consultation regarding personal strengths and self-identified areas of improvement.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Case Western Reserve University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kathy D Wright, PhD,RN · Case Western Reserve University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-06-30
Primary Completion
2017-03-31
Completion
2017-07-31

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