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| ID | Type | Description | Link |
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| #2013P001295/BWH | Other Identifier | Partners IRB |
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| Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute | OTHER |
| Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making | OTHER |
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Investigators will conduct a randomized trial with patients, through one-on-one interviews, to evaluate their understanding of and willingness to use a decision support tool and to determine if receiving and discussing the decision support tool improves the likelihood that a patient is adherent to a new antihypertensive medication.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Interview only | Active Comparator | Patients will be asked to participate in an interview regarding their views on hypertension and taking medications to treat hypertension. |
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| Control | Placebo Comparator | Control group patients will then be mailed an American Heart Association brochure regarding hypertension and a brief, 5-question, paper-based survey. These patients will be asked to review the brochure, complete the survey, and mail it back to the research team using a self-addressed stamped envelope. |
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| Interview plus decision support tool | Experimental | Patients will be asked to participate in an interview regarding their views on hypertension and taking medications to treat hypertension, and to provide feedback regarding a new tool for helping patients learn more about their medications. Interview plus patients' index date for follow-up is the date of the scheduled interview. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Control | Behavioral | Control group patients will then be mailed an American Heart Association brochure regarding hypertension and a brief, 5-question, paper-based survey. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Cumulative incidence of antihypertensive medication fills | The proportion of patients in each group who picked up a prescription for an antihypertensive medication in any class during the follow-up period. Investigators will calculate cumulative incidences among all patients, whether or not they successfully completed the interview or returned the paper-based survey (Intention to Treat) and among only those patients who did complete the interview or returned the paper-based survey (As Treated). | 6 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Patient Interviews | One-on-one structured interviews will ask about participants' preferences, attitudes and beliefs regarding primary adherence and/or use of a decision support tool. | 5 months |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Jennifer Polinski, Sc.D. | Brigham and Women's Hospital | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Brigham and Women's Hospital | Boston | Massachusetts | 02115 | United States |
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| ID | Term |
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| D055118 | Medication Adherence |
| D006973 | Hypertension |
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| D010349 | Patient Compliance |
| D010342 | Patient Acceptance of Health Care |
| D000074822 | Treatment Adherence and Compliance |
| D015438 | Health Behavior |
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| D007407 | Interviews as Topic |
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| D003625 | Data Collection |
| D004812 | Epidemiologic Methods |
| D008919 | Investigative Techniques |
| D017531 | Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms |
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| Interview Only | Behavioral | Patients will be asked to participate in an interview regarding their views on hypertension and taking medications to treat hypertension. |
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| Interview plus decision support tool | Behavioral | Patients will be asked to participate in an interview regarding their views on hypertension and taking medications to treat hypertension and to provide feedback regarding a new decision support tool for helping patients learn more about their medications. |
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| D001519 | Behavior |
| D014652 | Vascular Diseases |
| D002318 | Cardiovascular Diseases |
| D011787 | Quality of Health Care |
| D017530 | Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation |
| D011634 | Public Health |
| D004778 | Environment and Public Health |