SPHERE Hypertension Intervention Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Hypertension

In brief

Overview: This study uses communications strategies delivered through the traditional emergency medical response system to increase the proportion of low-income adults who obtain blood pressure screening and follow-up information for hypertension treatment options. The project will test the effectiveness of source personalization and tailored messaging in motivating potentially high-risk people, identified by 911 responders, to come to a local fire station for hypertension screening. Specific Aims: The specific aims are: 1. Test the effectiveness of three health marketing approaches to motivate high-risk people, identified via 911 responders, to come to a local fire station for hypertension screening. The mailed marketing approaches vary personalized risk information and personalization of source. 2. Test the effectiveness of two mailing interventions (blood pressure kits with and without promotional gifts) to increase blood pressure monitoring among patients who have come to a fire station for a second blood pressure check.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00495833

Run by

University of Washington

People needed

8000

Starts

2007-06-01

Expected to finish

2009-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2010-06-29

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Seen by EMTs in one of the four participating fire departments (Bellevue, Kent, Renton, Shoreline)
• Recorded systolic blood pressure >= 160 and/or diastolic blood pressure >= 100
• At least 18 years old

You may not qualify if…

• Patient transported by paramedics
• Patient nursing home/adult family home resident
• Patient a prisoner or in custody (in jail or at the Regional Justice Center in Kent, for example)

Where it is running

• University of Washington Health Promotion Research Center — Seattle, Washington, United States

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