Activating Media for Salt Reduction

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Hypertensive Disease
• Interventions: Dietary Supplement: low sodium salt; Other: informational intervention

• Registration Number: NCT03074851
• Lead Sponsor: The George Institute for Global Health, China

Brief Summary

Mass media plays more and more important role in health education, especially in some chronic diseases which related closely with the behavior and habits. Past experience tells us that with the help of related health education in mass media such as newspaper articles, advertisements and videos on television, peoples can change their behaviors and habits in a short period of time. But when these educational information were stopped, peoples usually return to their original habits. Besides the national policy of the country how to improve the long-term health education in the mass media should be considered.This study hopes to seek an effective method to keep the mass media long-term focus on health education.

Detailed Description

In this study, reporters just like researchers were in charge of the low-sodium salt intervention. Reporters are responsible for recommended objects and measure their blood pressure personally. By observing personally the change of blood pressure pre and post low-sodium salt intervention, reporters will increase their confidence and come to the conclusion that the low salt diet is an economical way to reduce blood pressure. Those reporters would share their experiment with other people including their colleagues, Hopefully, those reporters that took part in the trial would consciously keep a sustained focus to this topic, thereby retaining a long-time education in mass media.There were two interventions. One is low-sodium salt intervention and the other is informational intervention. Low-sodium salt intervention was carried out on those family members recommended by reporters, and informational intervention. Low-sodium salt intervention was only on the reporters. The evaluation criteria of low-sodium salt intervention is the blood pressure value, and the evaluation criteria of informational intervention are the numbers of related articles in certain newspaper and the awareness of related knowledges in local population.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-12
• Study First Submitted: 2013-10-31
• Primary Completion: 2017-02
• Study Completion: 2017-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-03-05
• Study First Posted: 2017-03-09
• Status Verified: 2021-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-04-13
• Last Update Posted: 2021-04-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 516

Inclusion Criteria

• Come from local only Daily company;
• With a national press card;
• Health Column reporters preferred;
• Without leaving plan in the next 12 months;
• With easy access to at least 4 families, including relatives, friends or neighbour;
• Volunteered to participate.

Exclusion Criteria

• n/a

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Salt Substitute	low sodium salt	To seek the relationship between blood pressure and low sodium salt.
informational intervention	informational intervention	to give 1 month informational intervention

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of local media reports on salt and health	5 years
Mean blood pressure	2 months	This outcome is only for the build-in randomised trial on salt substitute and blood pressure among reporters' families

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Awareness of knowledge on salt and health	5 years	A questionnaire will be applied to count the number of participants known the pre-specified answers to the questions raised on salt and health

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Changzhi medical college; 🇨🇳 Changzhi, Shanxi, China