Conquering Hypertension in Urban Vietnam

Summary

The HTN-URBAN project aims to improve hypertension (HTN) control for adults in a large northern Vietnamese city via a cluster-randomized trial design.

Conditions

• Hypertension

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Storytelling intervention

The storytelling intervention consists of interactive, literacy-appropriate, and culturally sensitive multimedia storytelling modules for motivating behavior change through the power of patients speaking in their own voice. Based on preferences that emerged during the researchers' formative work with the partnering rural communities, the storytelling intervention will be delivered via Computerized Intervention Authoring System (CIAS) on a biweekly basis. A supplementary "Learn More" module of didactic material (3 minutes) provides strategies for better patient-physician communication and is coordinated with the specific patient stories will be provided via CIAS as well.

BEHAVIORAL

Home BP monitoring

Patients with hypertension will be provided blood pressure monitors and guided to self-measure their blood pressure and to record their blood pressure daily at home.

BEHAVIORAL

Expanded community health worker services

A training program will be implemented for community health workers for the intervention arm regarding hypertension management at the community level so that they can assist patients better managing their blood pressure at home.

BEHAVIORAL

"Learn More" module only

A supplementary "Learn More" module of didactic material (3 minutes) provides strategies for better patient-physician communication, which will be delivered via Computerized Intervention Authoring System (CIAS) at baseline and at 3, 6, and 9 months after enrollment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

  collaborator NIH

• Health Strategy and Policy Institute

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Massachusetts, Worcester

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Hoa Nguyen, MD, MS, PhD · University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-11-01

Primary Completion

2029-02-28

Completion

2029-02-28

Countries

• Vietnam

Study Locations