CHW Intervention to Improve Nutrition Security of Patients With Hypertension

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Hypertension, Nutrition, Healthy, Food Insecurity, Community Health Worker

In brief

The goal of this study is to implement and evaluate a randomized pilot study of a 4-month Nutrition-enhanced community health worker (CHW) intervention for primary care patients with nutrition insecurity and poorly controlled hypertension. The nutrition intervention will be added to the pre-existing Massachusetts General Hospital CHW hypertension (Basic CHW) program that provides hypertension education, coaching about adherence to medications and primary care visits, and home BP cuffs and promotion of BP self-monitoring over the course of approximately 4 months.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06358417

Run by

Massachusetts General Hospital

People needed

60

Starts

2024-09-01

Expected to finish

2026-02-28

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-21

Who can join

Age: 21 and older, up to 99. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Eligible to participate in the Massachusetts General Hospital CHW hypertension program (age 21 years or older, uncontrolled hypertension, patient at one of 5 participating primary care clinics; either identifies as a minoritized race/ethnicty or is low-income); speaks English or Spanish

You may not qualify if…

• declines participation in CHW hypertension program; does not speak English or Spanish

Where it is running

• Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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