Treating to Target for Patients With Hypertension

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Hypertension
• Interventions: Behavioral: Health coaching plus home titration; Behavioral: Health coaching

• Registration Number: NCT01013857
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco

Brief Summary

Patients with poorly controlled hypertension will have improved hypertensive control with telephone coaching and with telephone coaching combined with home-titration of medications.

Detailed Description

Patients with poorly controlled hypertension are randomized to a control arm which receives telephone coaching or an active arm which receives telephone coaching plus intensification of medications via telephone coaching with the coaches using treatment algorithms approved by the patients' physician. These patients' blood pressure control will be compared with usual care patients in a passive arm (chart review only).

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-01
• Study First Submitted: 2009-11-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-11-13
• Study First Posted: 2009-11-16
• Primary Completion: 2010-02
• Study Completion: 2011-12
• Status Verified: 2022-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-03-07
• Last Update Posted: 2022-03-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 240

Inclusion Criteria

• 2 blood pressure readings above 145/90.

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Exclusion Criteria

• Cognitive impairment,
• Short life expectancy,
• Creatinine greater than 1.5,
• Inability to check blood pressures at home.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Health coaching plus home-titration	Health coaching plus home titration	Health coaches call patients every week to discuss medication adherence and to intensify medications if appropriate according to physician-created algorithm
Health coaching	Health coaching	Phone patients every week to discuss medication adherence

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Systolic blood pressure	6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Diastolic blood pressure	6 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

San Francisco General Hospital; 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States