We Talk About Our Hypertension

Institute of Population, Health and Development, Vietnam

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Behavioral: Storytelling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02483780

2014/PHAD/UMMS 01-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed pilot community-based research project will examine the feasibility, acceptability, and potential efficacy of the Storytelling intervention compared with usual care in hypertension control among rural residents in 4 communities in Vietnam. This is a major clinical and public health problem in this developing country.

Enrollment: 160 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Consenting adult men and women must fulfill each of the following criteria:

1. be a resident of the selected commune;
2. be aged 50 years or older;
3. have a diagnosis of hypertension according to the 7th Joint National Commission of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7)
4. not be cognitively impaired (as assessed by study physicians)
5. not be a "story teller" used to develop the intervention;
6. not be a family member of another participant in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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160 participants in 2 patient groups

Storytelling intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Two communes will be assigned to intervention group. Within each commune, 25 adults with HTN will be enrolled. Patients will receive 2 DVDs with stories of patients who have successfully controlled their hypertension and "Learn More" section, which will be coordinated with specific patient stories and will fill in gaps not covered by the storytellers.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Storytelling

Usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

Two communes will be assigned to usual care group. Within each commune, 25 adults with HTN will be enrolled. Patients will receive 2 DVDs with only didactic material about common non-communicable diseases but without hypertension related stories.