Middle-aged and Older Adults with Hypertension in Rural Communities

Chimei Medical Center

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Other: control group; Other: Experimental Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06666361

CMMC11309-L01

IRB Serial No.: 11309-L01 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Does the m-Health intervention have a positive effect on the health literacy and health promotion behaviors of the study participants?

Full description

This study adopted a mixed methods study, and the first stage was a qualitative research design. The second phase was a quantitative research design aims to evaluate the effectiveness of applying healthy lifestyle intervention on the health literacy and health promotion behaviors among middle-aged and older adults with hypertension in rural communities. Recruitment is planned to be conducted in the cardiology outpatient clinic of a regional teaching hospital in the south. It will be a random assignment, single-blind, experimental research design, using simple random sampling to assign to the experimental group and the control group (experimental group: hypertension health education manual + m-Health; control group: hypertension health education manual), a two- month intervention program was carried out, and the questionnaire survey was conducted three times: once as a pre-test and twice as post-tests (during the 4th week and the 8th week of the intervention). Data analysis was conducted using statistical software (SPSS, version 22.0) for data management and statistical analysis, and analysis was conducted using descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, chi-square test, and generalized estimating equations (GEE).

Enrollment: 160 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Diagnosed with hypertension for one year or more (including) and controlled with medication (systolic blood pressure ≥ 130 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure ≥ 80 mmHg).
2. Aware hypertensive patients aged ≥ 45 years with the ability to read and write.
3. Able to take medication independently.
4. Own a smartphone and are able to use it, and are willing to receive text messages (TxtM) or mobile health interventions (m-Health).
5. Agree to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

1. Have cognitive impairments or mental disorders.
2. CCI (Charlson Comorbidity Index) score ≥ 3.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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160 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental Group:receiving intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group participates in the Mobio Health Multimedia Hypertension Education Program, which includes a hypertension health education manual and a mobile health (m-health) intervention, aimed at enhancing participants' health literacy and promoting health-enhancing behaviors.

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Group

Control group :Non intervention

Experimental group

Description:

In the control group, participants received the same hypertension health education manual as the experimental group.

Treatment:

Other: control group