Feasibility Study of a Novel mHealth Application to Enable Community Health Workers to Manage

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-12-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a single group study assessing the feasibility of hypertension management by community health workers (CHWs) equipped with a mobile clinical decision support (CDS) application and working with remote physician supervision.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Collaborator: Fogarty International Center of the National Institute of Health
• Treatments: Antihypertensive Agents

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Greater than 18 years old

• Diagnosed with hypertension

• Blood pressure greater than or equal to 140/90 mm Hg OR

• currently taking antihypertensive medication

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy

• Severe comorbid condition(s) with life expectancy less than 1 year