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Guided Physical Activity Counseling for Hypertension in Primary Care
Sponsor: University of California, San Diego
Summary
The goal of this study is to create easy-to-read physical activity reports and counseling guides for primary care doctors. These tools will use activity data collected over time from wearable fitness trackers. The study will also test how helpful and easy the system is for doctors when talking with patients who have high blood pressure. This approach uses technology that already exists and helps solve problems that make it hard to use in medical care. It also has the potential to reach many people and be low-cost for clinics to use.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 80 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
330
Start Date
2026-10-01
Completion Date
2031-01-01
Last Updated
2026-01-15
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Physical activity counseling
The personalized data system will use physical activity data from Fitbits to create summary system reports that will guide brief discussions between providers and patients regarding PA during clinic visits. To facilitate discussion, tailored guides for providers randomly assigned to the Intervention Arm will include each of the following elements: a) a visual summary of mean weekly minutes of MVPA over the past 4-6 weeks, b) whether they are meeting clinical guidelines of 150 minutes/week, c) whether their minutes are increasing, decreasing, or generally remaining the same, d) a script for performance feedback, e) questions tailored to whether the patient is increasing or decreasing their activity, f) a script to discuss an appropriate BCT through the lens of shared decision making, and g) a prompt to review the plan. The plan summary will be incorporated in the patient's after visit summary.