NCT05405920CompletedPhase 3

Caribbean and South America Team-based Strategy to Control Hypertension

Implementing and Scaling Up a Team-based Care Strategy for Hypertension Control in Colombia and Jamaica

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 1 Oct 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The CATCH cluster randomized trial will test the effectiveness and implementation outcomes of implementing and scaling up the 2017 American Heart Association and 2021 World Health Organization hypertension guidelines through a team-based care approach for blood pressure control in Colombia and Jamaica.

Status (registry): Completed
Phase (registry): Phase 3
Study type: Interventional
Enrollment: 1706 (actual)
First submitted: 27 May 2022
Start date: 23 Feb 2023
Primary completion date: 9 Sept 2026
Lead sponsor: Tulane University
Diseases: High blood pressure
NCT number: NCT05405920

What you commit to

Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
Participants enrolled: 1706
From 23 Feb 2023 to the primary completion date, 9 Sept 2026
2 sites in 2 countries
Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Who the study is looking for

Serving \>300 hypertensive patients during the previous year
Clinic visits and BP medications are free of charge to patients
Not sharing physicians, nurses, pharmacists, or community health workers (CHWs) with other clinics
Men or women aged ≥ 21 years who receive primary care from participating clinics
Average untreated BP ≥140/90 mm Hg among individuals without a history of clinical cardiovascular disease (CVD), chronic kidney disease (CKD), or diabetes; average untreated BP ≥130/80 mm Hg among individuals aged ≥65 years or those with clinical CVD, CKD, or diabetes; or average treated BP ≥130/80 mm Hg from six BP readings at two screening visits
No prior hospitalization for heart failure
No stage 4 or 5 chronic kidney disease (estimated glomerular filtration rate \<30 ml/min/1,73m2, chronic dialysis, or transplant)
Not pregnant or planning to become pregnant in the next 18 months
Able and willing to give informed consent
No plans to change primary care clinic in the next 18 months
Not an immediate family member of staff at the primary care clinic

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (2)

Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.

Site	City	Country	Site status
20 primary care clinics in Colombia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status	Santander	Colombia	Unknown status
20 primary care clinics in Jamaica Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status	Kingston	Jamaica	Unknown status

Related publications

Caribbean and South American team-based strategy to control hypertension (CATCH): Rationale and study design of a cluster randomized trial.Am Heart J · 2026 · PMID 41419163

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