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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
240 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2019-07-14
2024-12-30
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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The investigators will use quota sampling to over sample socioeconomically deprived persons to ensure that socioeconomically deprived persons comprise 50% of the sample. Poverty will be defined by (1) Household income, based on Ghana minimum monthly wage of 210 Ghana cedis (equivalent of $55). After screening eligible participants, the investigators will assign four clusters of 60 patients to the intervention or control arms. The investigators will require 30 patients in each cluster to be male and 30 to be female since in the investigators' previous work, men have been underrepresented potentially due to gender-differences in healthcare seeking behaviors. Men have also had inferior treatment and control rates in previous studies.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
DOUBLE
Study Groups
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Enhanced Usual Care Group
All participants in the enhanced usual care arm must own a cell phone with at least short message service (SMS) and voicemail. To control for attention exposure, they will receive SMS messages daily dealing with healthy lifestyle behaviors (smoking, diet, physical activity) but not with medication adherence or hypertension-specific issues. Every three days (comparable to intervention group monitoring) they will receive an automated SMS directing them to a different 2-3 min video/YouTube™ clips on healthy lifestyles. Patients in this arm of the study will also receive usual care as determined by their providers. Usual care is described in the next section.
Enhanced Usual Care Group
Medtronic® Labs' Akoma pa app, a culturally-tested and locally attuned mobile health platform, will be used in the intervention arm of the study to improve communication between the Community Health Officer (CHO) and the participant. This platform will be used to enhance shared decision making, clinical decision support, participatory communication, knowledge, treatment adherence (medication and lifestyle modification), and self-monitoring of hypertension. We will test the feasibility of the Akoma pa app in addressing patient-level and provider-level barriers to hypertension control.
The app will consist of the following components:
1. Reminders
2. Participant to CHO messaging
3. Home BP tracking
4. Educational materials on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and Stroke- Participants will have access to education modules on reducing the risk of CVD and stroke tailored to their knowledge level.
5. CHO provider portal- The provider portal will include decision support tools.
Usual Care
Patients in this arm of the study will receive usual care as determined by their providers. Usual care in the region typically involves at least one visit every 2-3 months for review of adherence to treatment, blood pressure control, and prescriptions for medication refills. Similar to the intervention group, participants will have a total of three follow-up visits which will be separate from their regular appointments during which study outcomes will be assessed.
Usual Care Group
Regular/usual appointments or visits to patients' healthcare provider for management of study outcomes
Interventions
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Enhanced Usual Care Group
Medtronic® Labs' Akoma pa app, a culturally-tested and locally attuned mobile health platform, will be used in the intervention arm of the study to improve communication between the Community Health Officer (CHO) and the participant. This platform will be used to enhance shared decision making, clinical decision support, participatory communication, knowledge, treatment adherence (medication and lifestyle modification), and self-monitoring of hypertension. We will test the feasibility of the Akoma pa app in addressing patient-level and provider-level barriers to hypertension control.
The app will consist of the following components:
1. Reminders
2. Participant to CHO messaging
3. Home BP tracking
4. Educational materials on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and Stroke- Participants will have access to education modules on reducing the risk of CVD and stroke tailored to their knowledge level.
5. CHO provider portal- The provider portal will include decision support tools.
Usual Care Group
Regular/usual appointments or visits to patients' healthcare provider for management of study outcomes
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Male or female
* Uncontrolled hypertension (SBP ≥140 mm Hg) based upon last outpatient encounter within the previous three months
* Patients with previous strokes, coronary artery disease, up to stage three kidney disease and diabetes mellitus meeting BP cut-off criteria will be eligible for enrollment.
* Severe cognitive impairment/dementia (Modified Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score ≤24)
* Severe global disability (modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score ≥3)
* Not able to independently follow blood pressure measurement protocol or use of Smartphone for study protocol or without a care-giver to assist with BP monitoring at home
* Patients with estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) \<30ml/min
18 Years
70 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Johns Hopkins Alliance for a Healthier World
UNKNOWN
Johns Hopkins University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, PhD, MHS, RN
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Johns Hopkins University
Locations
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Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana
Kumasi South Hospital
Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana
Manhyia Government Hospital
Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana
Suntreso Government Hospital
Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana
Countries
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References
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Related Links
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World Health Organization(WHO). Chapter XIII: Hypertension in adherence to LongTerm therapies-evidence for action.
World Health Statistics
Other Identifiers
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IRB00218586
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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