Goal Setting and Mobile-based Self-management Tool to Improve Diet Quality of People With High Blood Pressure

National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Blood Pressure, High

Treatments

Other: Nutrition education

Behavioral: Goal setting with mobile-based self-management tool

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06988501

2023-2167

Details and patient eligibility

About

SMART goal setting is a patient-led method that can help improve execution and facilitate behavioral changes. Functions such as diet tracking, interaction, and feedback in smartphone application may help enhance patient compliance. This study aims to explore the nutrition intervention measures of SMART goal setting combined with smartphone applications for daily self-management on the effect of improving diet quality of people with high blood pressure.

Enrollment

110 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

20 to 70 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Age 20-70;
Hypertension diagnosis, or high blood pressure (SBP between 120-139 mmHg and/or DBP between 80-89 mmHg);
Eating an unhealthy diet (estimated DASH score < 6) ;
Owning a smartphone and able to operate it proficiently;
Sign the informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

Severe cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, such as acute myocardial infarction, tachyarrhythmia, pulmonary edema, and severe aortic stenosis;
Acute phase of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases;
Uncontrolled blood pressure;
Diagnosed mental diseases or epilepsy;
Cardiac pacemaker implantation;
Allergic constitutions;
Pregnant women or planning to become pregnant;
Individuals who have participated in other clinical studies within the past 3 months;
Refuse to sign the informed consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

110 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group will receive nutrition education on blood pressure management. The dietitian will work with the participants to set individual SMART goals. The participants will have access to diet tracking function, weekly reports and monthly virtual meeting with dietitian.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Goal setting with mobile-based self-management tool

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group will receive nutrition education on blood pressure management.

Treatment:

Other: Nutrition education