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NCT Number: NCT02483780

We Talk About Our Hypertension

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Hypertension Cardiovascular Diseases Vascular Diseases

Age range

50 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Institute of Population, Health and Development (PHAD)

Hà Nội, Vietnam

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

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

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

Exclusion criteria

Treatment and study plan

Storytelling

Behavioral

The intervention will center on stories about living with hypertension, with patients speaking in their own words.

Primary outcomes

  1. recruitment rate

    Time frame: 3 months

  2. retention rate

    Time frame: 1 year

Secondary outcomes

  1. Blood pressure

    Time frame: 3 months after randomization

    systolic and diastolic BP and the proportion of participants with controlled BP defined as in JNC-8

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Institute of Population, Health and Development, Vietnam

Other

Collaborators

  • University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Registry information

Official study title

Culturally Adaptive Storytelling Method to Improve Hypertension Control in Vietnam -"We Talk About Our Hypertension": a Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Important dates

Study start
2015
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2016
First posted
Jun 29, 2015
Registry last updated
Apr 6, 2017

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