Assessing the Feasibility of the "Heart Care Pairs" Intervention

Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham

About this trial

The researchers will invite 30 patients in primary care who have high blood pressure to participate in this health program with a supportive partner of their choosing (these will be the "participant pairs"). Participant pairs will be invited to complete the Heart Care Pairs health program that will include up to six sessions each including 1) some education on a health habit like physical activity and heart healthy foods, 2) goal setting together, and 3) talk about healthy communication to support one another with heart healthy habits. The researchers will work with participants to address things that get in the way of coming for visits like offering transportation and offering telehealth visits. The researchers are seeing how this program works in real life so participants will be asked to complete as many sessions as they want to and can attend. The researchers will be interested in what participants think about the sessions, if they were satisfied with the visits, and if they would recommend the program to others in their community. The researchers will ask these questions in interviews with participants. The researchers will also ask up to 25 primary care workers about how they view the program as helpful to their work with patients with high blood pressure and whether they would refer more patients to the program in the future.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Diagnosed with hypertension and/or taking blood pressure lowering medications

willing to invite a supportive partner to participate for the duration of the study including an enrollment and baseline measurement visit, up to 6 intervention visits, and a post-intervention measurement visit.

Disqualifiers

untreated serious mental illness or cognitive decline that would limit ability to provide informed consent

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Dyadic lifestyle intervention for CVD risk reduction

Treatment groups

85 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group

Sponsors and collaborators

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Lead sponsor

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

Collaborator