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Feasibility Study of a Novel mHealth Application to Enable Community Health Workers to Manage

NCT05479097 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 32

Last updated 2024-07-16

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Summary

This is a single group study assessing the feasibility of hypertension management by community health workers (CHWs) equipped with a mobile clinical decision support (CDS) application and working with remote physician supervision.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

Anti-Hypertensive

Based on information entered by the CHWs into the CommCare application designed for this study, the application will provide recommendations (and underlying rationale for these recommendations) for prescription of antihypertensives (amlodipine and/or losartan OR enalapril) and medications to reduce cardiovascular risk (aspirin and atorvastatin) if indicated, lifestyle modification, and referral to the supervising physician if indicated for potential complications of hypertension.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fogarty International Center of the National Institute of Health

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sean Duffy, MD · University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
99 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-02-06
Primary Completion
2023-08-15
Completion
2023-12-31

Countries

  • Guatemala

Study Locations

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Diseases

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