Improving Hypertension Control

Medical College of Wisconsin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Behavioral: Lifestyle counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01910857

HWPP (Other Grant/Funding Number)

PRO16801

Details and patient eligibility

About

• The overall hypothesis for the project is that racial health disparities will be reduced by improving hypertension control in African Americans.
• This will be accomplished through the development, implementation, and evaluation of a cost-effective hypertension control strategy based on the involvement of a community health worker.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• African Americans with uncontrolled hypertension, followed at Progressive Community Health Centers

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Lifestyle counseling

Experimental group

Description:

Lifestyle counseling. 6 group meetings,facilitated by community health worker, focusing on lifestyle change, eg, weight loss, physical activity, low salt, stress reduction

Treatment:

Behavioral: Lifestyle counseling

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard care