Community Study to Reduce High Blood Pressure Through Text Messaging (REACH OUT)

University of Michigan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension; Stroke

Treatments: Behavioral: Text Messaging

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02664610

GO13884

Details and patient eligibility

About

One of the most powerful predictors of stroke is hypertension, with estimates of approximately 33% of adults in the United States experiencing this condition. Hypertension is significantly more prevalent in African Americans compared to European Americans. Importantly, hypertension is a modifiable stroke risk factor.

This proposal will use a community-based participatory research approach to perform a randomized trial of a mobile phone text-messaging intervention to reduce high blood pressure in an urban African American community in Flint, Michigan.

Full description

This is a randomized controlled trial of text messaging and blood pressure self-monitoring to reduce blood pressure.

Enrollment: 94 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 110 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult (>18 y/o) participants with BP ≥140/90 who have mobile phones with text-messaging capability.

Exclusion criteria

• Adult who is illiterate, non-English speaking, pregnant, incarcerated/ institutionalized resident, or has a pre-existing condition that makes follow-up for 6 months unlikely.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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94 participants in 2 patient groups

No text messages, hypertensive

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants who have high blood pressure, who are randomized to health information (do not receive text messages).

Text messages, hypertensive

Experimental group

Description:

Participants who have high blood pressure, who are randomized to receive text messages.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Text Messaging