NCT05685251Completed
Staying Healthy After Childbirth: My Hypertension Education and Reaching Target Program for Postpartum
Staying Healthy After Childbirth: My Hypertension Education and Reaching Target Program for Postpartum (STAC-MyHEARTp)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 28 Aug 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
A study of Staying Healthy After Childbirth (STAC) and My Hypertension Education And Reaching Target (MyHEART) for postpartum (p) patients to determine if health coaching can increase 12-month postpartum care attendance, hypertension control and hypertension self-management behavior compared to usual clinical care in patients with chronic hypertension or persistent pregnancy associated hypertension - postpartum. 140 participants will be enrolled and can expect to be on study for 12 months.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 140 (actual)
- First submitted
- 5 Jan 2023
- Start date
- 22 Feb 2023
- Primary completion date
- 10 Apr 2025
- Lead sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Diseases
- High blood pressure
- NCT number
- NCT05685251
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 140
- From 22 Feb 2023 to the primary completion date, 10 Apr 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
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Planned organ transplant or prior transplant in the past 5 years
- Chemotherapy or radiation therapy within 6 the past months
- Illegal drug use (other than marijuana) in the past 30 days
- Currently on dialysis or seeing a Nephrologist
Other illness
- History of medically determined Congestive Heart Failure
- Diagnosed with stroke, myocardial infarction, and/or coronary artery revascularization in the past 2 years
- Current participation or planning to participate in another clinical trial in the next 12 months that involves hypertension management/control
- Health condition that will limit both increasing physical activity and changing diet
- Unaware or denies history of high blood pressure or hypertension
Other
- Inability to participate in health coaching (i.e., no reliable phone contact or Wi-Fi
- Unable to provide informed consent (i.e., activated healthcare power of attorney)
- Unable or unwilling to travel to local clinic for research visits
- Currently residing in a skilled nursing facility
- Diagnosed with sickle cell anemia or cystic fibrosis
- Syncope while exercising or doing strenuous activity within past 12 months
- Currently prescribed warfarin, novel oral anticoagulant, or insulin
- Severely impaired hearing, vision, or speech, as determined by study staff responsible for enrollment
- Pregnant or planning to become pregnant in the next 12 months
- Planning to leave the geographic area in the next 12 months
- Unable to read or communicate in English
- Between-arm blood pressure difference \>20 mmHg
- Inability to comply with or complete the protocol or other reasons at the discretion of the principal and site investigators
- Prisoners
Who the study is looking for
- Willing and capable of giving written informed consent
- Willing to comply with all study procedures and be available for the duration of the study
- Genetically female
- Patients who complete the 6-week program, had a hypertension disorder of pregnancy who have persistent hypertension (systolic blood pressure greater than 130 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure greater than 80 mmHg) and/or are still on antihypertensive medication and those with chronic hypertension (CHTN) will be eligible to participate.
- Medically homed at UW Health or UPH
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: Female · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UW Hospital and Clinics Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madison | United States | Unknown status |
Related publications
- Care Navigation, Self-Measured Blood Pressure, and Health Coaching for Postpartum Care: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA Netw Open · 2026 · PMID 42566217
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