Recruitment

Recruitment Status
Active, not recruiting
Estimated Enrollment
240

Summary

Conditions
  • Diabetes
  • Hypertension
  • Telemedicine
Type
Interventional
Phase
Not Applicable
Design
Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentIntervention Model Description: Two-arm pilot cluster randomized control trial involving 240 participants with uncontrolled hypertension. The healthcare setting is the unit of randomization and patients are the unit of analysis. Each of the four healthcare settings will be recruited and randomly assigned to the multilevel intervention or control group. Randomization will be performed using a computer-generated random sequence program with a 1:1 allocation and a block size of 6 (to assure equal numbers in each arm). After meeting the study criteria for enrollment, 60 eligible patients for each setting will be assigned to either control or intervention arm according to their healthcare setting's intervention assignment by the study coordinator. The intervention will be administered for six months following which it will be withdrawn, and patients will be followed for six more months to assess outcomes.Masking: Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)Masking Description: Other staff will conduct the evaluations using established protocols. They will remain blinded as to patients' group status throughout the study (i.e., pre-intervention, 1, 3, 6 & 9-month evaluations).Primary Purpose: Treatment

Participation Requirements

Age
Between 18 years and 70 years
Gender
Both males and females

Description

This is a two-arm pilot cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) involving 240 participants with uncontrolled hypertension (HTN) with the healthcare setting as the unit of randomization and patients as the unit of analysis. Each of the four healthcare settings will be recruited and randomly assigne...

This is a two-arm pilot cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) involving 240 participants with uncontrolled hypertension (HTN) with the healthcare setting as the unit of randomization and patients as the unit of analysis. Each of the four healthcare settings will be recruited and randomly assigned to the multilevel intervention or control group. A statistician will generate the randomization using a computer-generated random sequence program with an allocation ratio of 1:1 and a block size of 6 (to assure equal numbers in each arm). After having met study criteria for enrollment, 60 eligible patients for each setting will be assigned to either control or intervention arm according to the patients' healthcare setting's intervention assignment by the study coordinator. A cluster RCT has been chosen to avoid potential treatment contamination in which physicians within healthcare settings might unintentionally provide patients with different degrees of attention or blending of treatment protocols. The intervention will be administered for six months following which it will be withdrawn, and patients will be followed for six more months to assess outcomes. The investigators will use quota sampling to oversample 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.

Tracking Information

NCT #
NCT04010344
Collaborators
Johns Hopkins Alliance for a Healthier World
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, PhD, MHS, RN Johns Hopkins University
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