NCT06078540Completed
A Mobile Health (mHealth) Strategy for Improving Blood Pressure Control Among Adult Hypertensive African Americans
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 3 Mar 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of this study is to test the proof-of-concept for adding a novel mHealth application, USeeBP, to the established UChicago Medicine Ambulatory Medicine Remote-Patient Monitoring (UCM-RPM) Hypertension Management Program in a population of African American adults with poorly controlled hypertension.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 31 (actual)
- First submitted
- 5 Oct 2023
- Start date
- 27 Oct 2023
- Primary completion date
- 5 Jul 2025
- Lead sponsor
- University of Chicago
- Diseases
- High blood pressure
- NCT number
- NCT06078540
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 31
- From 27 Oct 2023 to the primary completion date, 5 Jul 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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Prior treatment
- Prior enrollment in the study
Other illness
- Hypertension is managed by a specialist (specialist prescribes the anti-hypertensive therapies)
- Psychiatric hospitalization in the last year
- Serious existing medical conditions that may make BP control difficult or necessitate frequent hospitalization (cirrhosis or hepatic failure, stage IV or V chronic kidney disease, interstitial nephritis, pulmonary arterial hypertension, right heart failure, history of dementia or neurocognitive disability, advanced heart failure, organ transplant, immunosuppressive therapy, active cancer treatment, patients on hospice care), stroke or myocardial infarction in past 90 days, severe aortic stenosis
- Hospital admission for primary diagnosis of hypertensive emergency, hypertensive urgency, or uncontrolled hypertension in the past 90 days
Other
- Baseline blood pressure greater than 180/110
- Known pregnancy
- Prisoners
- Active opioid dependency
- Homelessness
Who the study is looking for
- African American
- Ages 18 to 65 years old
- Able to demonstrate English reading literacy of at least 8th grade level \[Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine, Revised (REALM-R) score ≥ 6\]
- Prior hypertension (HTN) diagnosis
- Clinically measured SBP ≥ 160 mmHg recorded during at least 2 of last 4 encounters within past 2 years
- UCM-RPM Hypertension Management Program current or eligible participant
- Access to an Android or Apple iOS smartphone and its corresponding health app
- Access to an active data plan or home Wi-Fi
- Willing to use wireless electronic blood pressure cuff (eCuff)
- Has access to EPIC myChart mobile app or is willing to establish myChart account and download app
- Willing to download USeeBP study app to phone
- Willing to download and use USeeBP app with staff assistance
Age in the registry: 18 years to 65 years · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chicago | United States | Unknown status |
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