Phone call and video reminders to help adults with high blood pressure take medicines
Tests phone call and video reminders in adults with uncontrolled high blood pressure.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Effectiveness of Phone Call and Video-based Interventions to Improve Adherence to Medications in Hypertensive Patients
Key facts
- Where
- Efiduase, GhanaSee the site
Could this be for you?
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 18 and 65 years old?
Source: NCT06927271, who can take part
Where in Ghana
- St Joseph Catholic HospitalEfiduase, GhanaTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- University of Ghana
- Trial code
- NCT06927271
- Record updated
- 15 April 2025
- Original description
The goal of this clinical trial is to find out if phone call and video-based interventions that seek to educate people with uncontrolled high blood pressure and also remind them to take their medicines will improve adherence to their medicines. It will also examine if the interventions are economical to implement. The main objectives of the study are:Read full original descriptionShow less
Effectiveness, Cost-effectiveness, and Acceptability of Phone Call and Video-based Interventions to Improve Adherence to Antihypertensive Medications
The goal of this clinical trial is to find out if phone call and video-based interventions that seek to educate people with uncontrolled high blood pressure and also remind them to take their medicines will improve adherence to their medicines. It will also examine if the interventions are economical to implement. The main objectives of the study are:
* Design videos and phone call-based interventions for people with hypertension. * Examine the effect of videos and phone call-based intervention on adherence to medication in people with hypertension. * Calculate the costs associated with the mobile health intervention * Examine the factors influencing acceptance of video and phone calls based interventions for improving adherence to antihypertensive medications among patients
Participants will:
* Receive the intervention thrice weekly for 3 months * Visit the health facility at the end of 3 months for check up and measurement of outcome variables (adherence and blood pressure). Additionally, at the end of 3 months, the acceptability of the interventions will be measured among the participants who received either phone call or video.
Researchers will compare the two groups (one group will utilize phone call whereas the other videos) with the control group to see if the mobile interventions improve adherence to medicines. Only adults 18 years and above in selected health facilities in the Eastern will participate in the study. The selected participants should have uncontrolled blood pressure based on readings from last 2 visits. To be included in the study, the participants need to own a smartphone.
Inclusion: adult aged 18 years or older; diagnosed of hypertension; has uncontrolled hypertension (i.e. systolic blood pressure ≥140 mmHg and a diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90mmHg) documented in their records on 2 clinic visits; has been prescribed at least one antihypertensive medication for a period of 2 months before the study; owns a smart phone or has access to one at all times.
Exclusion: Participating in another mobile health intervention or medication adherence intervention; Pregnant women with hypertension or within 3 months postpartum; Hypertensive patients with diabetes, liver failure or kidney disease; has a psychiatric disease or mental illness 6) has a visual impairment; Plans to travel out of the country during the period of the study.