Activating Media for Salt Reduction

The George Institute for Global Health, China

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertensive Disease

Treatments: Other: informational intervention; Dietary Supplement: low sodium salt

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03074851

CoESeedGrant_04

CoESeedGrant_MediaReportor (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Mass media plays more and more important role in health education, especially in some chronic diseases which related closely with the behavior and habits. Past experience tells us that with the help of related health education in mass media such as newspaper articles, advertisements and videos on television, peoples can change their behaviors and habits in a short period of time. But when these educational information were stopped, peoples usually return to their original habits. Besides the national policy of the country how to improve the long-term health education in the mass media should be considered.This study hopes to seek an effective method to keep the mass media long-term focus on health education.

Full description

In this study, reporters just like researchers were in charge of the low-sodium salt intervention. Reporters are responsible for recommended objects and measure their blood pressure personally. By observing personally the change of blood pressure pre and post low-sodium salt intervention, reporters will increase their confidence and come to the conclusion that the low salt diet is an economical way to reduce blood pressure. Those reporters would share their experiment with other people including their colleagues, Hopefully, those reporters that took part in the trial would consciously keep a sustained focus to this topic, thereby retaining a long-time education in mass media.There were two interventions. One is low-sodium salt intervention and the other is informational intervention. Low-sodium salt intervention was carried out on those family members recommended by reporters, and informational intervention. Low-sodium salt intervention was only on the reporters. The evaluation criteria of low-sodium salt intervention is the blood pressure value, and the evaluation criteria of informational intervention are the numbers of related articles in certain newspaper and the awareness of related knowledges in local population.

Enrollment: 516 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Come from local only Daily company;
• With a national press card;
• Health Column reporters preferred;
• Without leaving plan in the next 12 months;
• With easy access to at least 4 families, including relatives, friends or neighbour;
• Volunteered to participate.

Exclusion criteria

• n/a

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

516 participants in 2 patient groups

Salt Substitute

Experimental group

Description:

To seek the relationship between blood pressure and low sodium salt.

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: low sodium salt

informational intervention

Other group

Description:

to give 1 month informational intervention

Treatment:

Other: informational intervention