Do Home Monitors Improve Blood Pressure Control?

Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Hypertension; Diabetes Mellitus

Treatments: Behavioral: Home blood pressure monitor

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01579136

201147

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if home blood pressure monitors can help decrease blood pressure in patients with diabetes at a low income clinic.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• over 18 years old,
• diabetes as defined by HgA1C over 6.5%,
• uncontrolled blood pressure (SBP > 130 and or DBP > 80)

Exclusion criteria

• pregnancy,
• transplanted organ,
• MI/CHF/CVA within 3 months,
• dialysis,
• arrhythmia,
• metastatic cancer,
• dementia,
• visual or hearing difficulties

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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26 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

This group will not get a home blood pressure monitor.

Home monitors

Experimental group

Description:

This group will be given a home blood pressure monitor to use.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Home blood pressure monitor