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The Association Between the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Medication Adherence in Hypertensive African-Americans

NCT00227201

Sponsor

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Status

Completed

Last Update Posted

Apr 25, 2008Estimated

Enrollment

Phase

Not provided

Conditions

Hypertension

Interventions

Self-affirmation intervention

Countries

United States

Protocol Section

Identification Module Status Module Sponsor/Collaborators Module Oversight Module Description Module Conditions Module Design Module Arms/Interventions Module Outcomes Module Eligibility Module Contacts/Locations Module References Module IPD Sharing Statement Module

Results Section

Participant Flow Module Baseline Characteristics Module Outcome Measures Module Adverse Events Module More Info Module

Annotation Section

Annotation Module

Document Section

Large Document Module

Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module Condition Browse Module Intervention Browse Module

Protocol Section

Identification Module

NCT ID

Results Section

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Annotation Section

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Document Section

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module

Version Holder

Status Module

Record Verification Date

Apr 2008

Overall Recruitment Status or Expanded Access Status

Completed

Last Known Status

Not provided

Delayed Posting

Not provided

Why Stopped

Not provided

Expanded Access Info

Start Date

Jun 2003

Primary Completion Date

Not provided

Completion Date

May 2005

First Submitted Date

Sep 23, 2005

First Submission Date that Met QC Criteria

Sep 26, 2005

First Posted Date

Sep 27, 2005Estimated

Results Waived

Not provided

Results First Submitted Date

Not provided

Results First Submitted that Met QC Criteria

Not provided

Results First Posted Date

Not provided

Certification/Extension (aka Delayed Results) First Submitted Date

Not provided

Certification/Extension First Submitted that Passed QC Review

Not provided

Certification/Extension First Posted Date

Not provided

Last Update Submitted Date

Apr 23, 2008

Last Update Posted Date

Apr 25, 2008Estimated

Name	Class
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)	NIH

Description Module

Brief Summary

The objective of this study is to better understand strategies used by African Americans with hypertension in order to control their blood pressure.

Detailed Description

The objective of this study is to better understand strategies used by African Americans with hypertension in order to control their blood pressure. Through the use of qualitative interviews, the beliefs and attitudes toward complementary medicine of African Americans with hypertension will be elucidated.

Design Module

Study Type

Observational

Number of References to an Expanded Access Study

Not provided

Expanded Access Types

Not provided

Patient Registry

Not provided

Target Follow-Up Duration

Not provided

Phases

Not provided

Interventional Study Design

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Biospecimen

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Enrollment

Name	Type	Description	Arm Group Labels	Other Names
Self-affirmation intervention	Behavioral

Outcomes Module

Primary Outcomes

Measure	Description	Time Frame
The impact of positive affect induction and self-affirmation on medication adherence and blood pressure control.

Secondary Outcomes

Not provided

Other Outcomes

Not provided

Eligibility Module

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients will be African-American adults 18 years or older who were diagnosed with poorly controlled hypertension as defined by the 6th Joint National Committee guidelines (systolic >140 and diastolic >90).
Patients will also be eligible if they are taking any prescribed anti-hypertensive medications.
Patients must be able to provide informed consent in English. Participants will be recruited from Cornell Internal Medicine Associates, the primary care and general medicine practice at Cornell Medical Center, the same site as the parent grant.

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients who refused to participate.
Patients who are unable to provide informed consent.

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Sex

All

Sex/Gender Based

Not provided

Sex/Gender Description

Not provided

Minimum Age

18 Years

Maximum Age

Not provided

Standard Ages

AdultOlder Adult

Study Population

Not provided

Sampling Method

Not provided

Contacts/Locations Module

Central Contacts

Not provided

Overall Officials

Name	Affiliation	Role
Jason Moore	Weill Medical College of Cornell University	Principal Investigator
Mary E Charlson, MD	Weill Medical College of Cornell University	Principal Investigator

Locations

Facility	Status	City	State	ZIP	Country	Contacts
New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical College		New York	New York	10021	United States

References Module

Citations

PubMed Identifier	Type	Citation	Retractions
	Background	JA Moore, Factors that influenced medication adherence among African-Americans with hypertension, to be presented at the 12th Annual NHLBI Cardiovascular Minority Research Supplement Awardee Session, American Heart Association, November 2004.

ID	Term
D014652	Vascular Diseases
D002318	Cardiovascular Diseases
D010349	Patient Compliance
D010342	Patient Acceptance of Health Care

ID	Term
D006973	Hypertension
D055118	Medication Adherence