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CHW Intervention to Improve Nutrition Security of Patients With Hypertension
Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
Summary
The goal of this study is to implement and evaluate a randomized pilot study of a 4-month Nutrition-enhanced community health worker (CHW) intervention for primary care patients with nutrition insecurity and poorly controlled hypertension. The nutrition intervention will be added to the pre-existing Massachusetts General Hospital CHW hypertension (Basic CHW) program that provides hypertension education, coaching about adherence to medications and primary care visits, and home BP cuffs and promotion of BP self-monitoring over the course of approximately 4 months.
Official title: CHW Intervention to Improve Nutrition Security of Primary Care Patients With Hypertension
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
21 Years - 99 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
60
Start Date
2024-09-01
Completion Date
2025-12-31
Last Updated
2025-11-18
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Nutrition-enhanced CHW
CHW provides nutrition education and skills training in addition to the usual care (Basic CHW) hypertension management.
Basic CHW
CHW provide usual care for hypertension management.
Locations (1)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States