NCT05565716Completed
Supporting Self-Management of Healthy Behaviors in Diabetes, Kidney Disease, and Hypertension
Supporting Self-Management of Healthy Behaviors Among People With Diabetes, Kidney Disease, and Hypertension (SMART-HABITS-4-Health): A Pilot Trial of a Blood Pressure Monitoring Intervention Leveraging Social Incentives and Gamification
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 8 Jul 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The planned intervention, entitled, Supporting Self-Management of Health Behaviors to Optimize Health (SMART-HABITS for Health), aims to provide support for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), hypertension and diabetes by providing text messages delivered as motivational reminders and support to encourage blood pressure self-monitoring through goal setting, customized task prompts via text message and feedback, leveraging social connections, and use of a gamification design.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 73 (actual)
- First submitted
- 5 Jul 2022
- Start date
- 21 Aug 2023
- Primary completion date
- 31 Jan 2025
- Lead sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
- Diseases
- High blood pressure
- NCT number
- NCT05565716
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 73
- From 21 Aug 2023 to the primary completion date, 31 Jan 2025
- 1 site in 1 country
- 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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Other illness
- inability to self-monitor (e.g., diagnosis of dementia, cognitive impairment, physically unable to set up BP cuff and machine)
- hypertension not managed by the nephrologist in Penn Medicine
Other
- inability to provide consent or read or speak English
- already participating in another blood pressure study or intervention trial
- vulnerable populations, living in a long-term care or rehabilitation institution,
- if likely to have their care transferred to another facility outside participating clinic areas during the course of the study
- planning to travel or live consecutively out of the country for more than one month
- mean blood pressure reading of \>180/100 mmHg at in person study visit
- any other reason they do not expect to be able to complete the study.
Who the study is looking for
- diagnosis of chronic kidney disease (any stage), hypertension, diabetes
- followed at University of Pennsylvania nephrology practice
- aged 18 years or over. -
- own a smart device (smartphone or tablet) capable of connecting to the internet and has Bluetooth enabled technology
- able to comprehend English.
- a mean blood pressure reading of \<180/100 mmHg in person study visit
- able and willing to provide informed consent
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Philadelphia | United States | Unknown status |
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