Prevalence, Awareness and Management of Hypertension in Acute Care Personnel

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Conditions studied: Hypertension

In brief

The primary purpose of this study is to identify the percentage of health care workers working in an acute care hospital who have high blood pressure, to determine the awareness of their blood pressure status, and to see how well it is managed. Study participants will come from the following three distinctly different types of departments: telemetry (clinical), non-telemetry (clinical), and non-direct patient care staff. All study participants are offered educational information surrounding high blood pressure and review the recommendation for their primary care engagement. Study participants with high blood pressure will be asked to continue in the study for up to 6 months. It is intended that each study participant who continues will take their blood pressure three times a day and record the results in a study provided diary. Each study participant should also make some of the suggested changes that promote a healthier lifestyle including exercising, improving their diet, and seeing their primary care provider. It is the thought that these changes will reduce the study participant's blood pressure. The secondary purpose is to determine the effect shift work has on these hospital employees and the potential positive effects of the three interventions.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01655654

Run by

Providence Health & Services

People needed

160

Starts

2012-08-01

Expected to finish

2013-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-03-10

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Providence Health System's Southwest Washington Service Area (SWSA) employees
• Subjects who will be included in the intervention part of the study will have two consecutive BP readings of > 140/90
• Has or is willing to have collaborative PCP
• Understand and sign the informed consent form

You may not qualify if…

• Under the age of 18
• Has a severe systemic illness with life expectancy judged less than three years
• Has a severe vascular event such as Myocardial Infarction or Cerebral Vascular Event in the past 90 days
• Is enrolled in another therapeutic program or similar study, and
• Has a condition which, in the opinion of the investigators, may prevent the subject from participating in the study

Where it is running

• Providence St. Peter Hospital — Olympia, Washington, United States

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