Clinical Trial: Effect of health communication intervention in encouraging untreated hypertension patients to take up the health care program -Verification by a randomized controlled trial- (Japan)

Tokyo, July 18 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000058485) titled 'Effect of health communication intervention in encouraging untreated hypertension patients to take up the health care program -Verification by a randomized controlled trial-' on July 16.

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Basic Design - Parallel Randomization - Randomized Blinding - Single blind -participants are blinded Control - No treatment

Primary Sponsor: Institute - Kyoto University

Condition: Condition - hypertension Classification by malignancy - Others Genomic information - NO

Objective: Narrative objectives1 - Targeting untreated hypertensive people in the prime of their working lives, for whom the onset and aggravation of lifestyle-related diseases is thought to cause great social and family losses and impacts, we will implement a health communication intervention that emphasizes emotional factors in encouraging them to seek medical help, and verify the effect on their actual behavior in seeking medical help. Basic objectives2 - Efficacy

Intervention: Interventions/Control_1 - In addition to the usual recommendation to see a doctor for those who are found to have high blood pressure during a health check, a message is also included to anticipate regret. Interventions/Control_2 - In addition to the usual recommendation to see a doctor for subjects who are found to have high blood pressure during a health check, a message that anticipates positive feelings is also included.

Eligibility: Age-lower limit - 40 years-old = Gender - Male and Female Key inclusion criteria - Men and women aged 40-64 who are considered to be at low to high risk for cerebrovascular disease based on office blood pressure according to the Japan Guidelines for Hypertension 2019. In other words, men and women with blood pressure of 130/80mmHg or higher. Key exclusion criteria - Those who regularly visit a doctor for high blood pressure, regardless of whether they are taking oral medication or not Target Size - 183

Recruitment Status: Recruitment status - Preinitiation Date of protocol fixation - 2025 Year 07 Month 15 Day Anticipated trial start date - 2025 Year 09 Month 01 Day Last follow-up date - 2026 Year 03 Month 31 Day

To know more, visit https://center6.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr_e/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000065555

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