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Supporting Self-Management of Healthy Behaviors in Diabetes, Kidney Disease, and Hypertension
Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania
Summary
The planned intervention, entitled, Supporting Self-Management of Health Behaviors to Optimize Health (SMART-HABITS for Health), aims to provide support for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), hypertension and diabetes by providing text messages delivered as motivational reminders and support to encourage blood pressure self-monitoring through goal setting, customized task prompts via text message and feedback, leveraging social connections, and use of a gamification design.
Official title: Supporting Self-Management of Healthy Behaviors Among People With Diabetes, Kidney Disease, and Hypertension (SMART-HABITS-4-Health): A Pilot Trial of a Blood Pressure Monitoring Intervention Leveraging Social Incentives and Gamification
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
73
Start Date
2023-08-21
Completion Date
2025-03-31
Last Updated
2026-07-08
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Support Person
Prior to randomization, participants will select their preference of the type of support person if they are assigned to this arm 1) a person they have close relationship with, or 2) a Peer Mentor, an individual who has successfully monitored their blood pressure at home using the study's equipment and also has diabetes, kidney disease, and high blood pressure. The Peer Mentor works with the research study team. This will be provided with the same weekly blood pressure feedback that the participants will receive. The support person is encouraged to reach out to the participant at least weekly.
Social Norms
Participants will receive weekly text messages that includes their individualize blood pressure performance statistics, included frequency of blood pressure monitoring and average blood pressure, and compare it to goals provided at the beginning of the study, as well as the week prior. Participants will also has access to a leaderboard that displays blood pressure performance information all people in the study in an anonymous fashion.
Locations (1)
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States