NCT07812350Recruiting
Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of a Digital Care Pathway and Asynchronous Communication for Patients With Hypertension
Digital Care Pathway and Asynchronous Communication for Primary Care Patients With Uncontrolled Hypertension: a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 21 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if digital care pathway (DCP) and digital non-real-time messaging, in other words, asynchronous communication (AC) with nurse works to treat high blood pressure in adults in primary care. It will also learn if DCP and AC are good value for money. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does DCP and AC lower systolic blood pressure? * Are DCP and AC good value for money in treating high blood pressure? Researchers will compare usual care plus DCP and usual care plus DCP with AC to usual care only to see if DCP and AC works to treat high blood pressure. Participants will: * Get usual care or usual care plus DCP or usual care plus DCP with AC for 6 months * Visit the study nurse at the start of the trial and after 6 months for checkup and tests which include usual laboratory tests for high blood pressure * Answer online survey questions and measure their blood pressure at home for 4 days at the start of the trial and after 6 months
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 600 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 25 Aug 2026
- Start date
- 15 Oct 2026
- Primary completion date
- Mar 2028
- Lead sponsor
- Wellbeing Services County of Pirkanmaa
- Diseases
- High blood pressure
- NCT number
- NCT07812350
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 600
- From 15 Oct 2026 to the primary completion date, Mar 2028
- 6 sites 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
- secondary hypertension or hypertensive crisis (office blood pressure \>200/130 mmHg)
- a clearly impaired ability to use the study interventions or participate in the study, as determined by a healthcare professional (e.g., insufficient Finnish language proficiency, dementia, psychiatric illness, or sensory impairments)
Lab values
- stage 4 or 5 chronic kidney disease (eGFR \<30 mL/min/1.73 m²)
Other
- unwillingness to participate in the study
- atrial fibrillation
- a life expectancy of less than 1 year
- pregnancy or breastfeeding
Who the study is looking for
- a diagnosis of hypertension for at least 3 months
- an office blood pressure of ≥140/90 mmHg at baseline
- access to a smartphone and the ability to use strong electronic identification for application login
- ability to measure home blood pressure
- ability to take care of the personal medication
Age in the registry: 30 years to 74 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (6)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akaa health and social services centre, The Wellbeing Services County of Pirkanmaa Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Akaa | Finland | Recruiting |
| Sastamala health and social services centre, The Wellbeing Services County of Pirkanmaa Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sastamala | Finland | Recruiting |
| Linnainmaa health and social services centre, The Wellbeing Services County of Pirkanmaa Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tampere | Finland | Recruiting |
| Hervanta health and social services centre, The Wellbeing Services County of Pirkanmaa Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tampere | Finland | Recruiting |
| Hatanpää health and social services centre, The Wellbeing Services County of Pirkanmaa Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tampere | Finland | Recruiting |
| Valkeakoski health and social services centre, The Wellbeing Services County of Pirkanmaa Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Valkeakoski | Finland | Recruiting |
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