Church-based Intervention to Improve Blood Pressure in African Americans

Description

This is a 12-month behavioral cluster-randomized trial testing a church-based intervention to reduce blood pressure in African Americans with uncontrolled blood pressure.

Conditions

Hypertension

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Study overview

This is a 12-month behavioral cluster-randomized trial testing a church-based intervention to reduce blood pressure in African Americans with uncontrolled blood pressure.

Abundant Living: A Church-based Intervention to Improve Blood Pressure in African Americans

Church-based Intervention to Improve Blood Pressure in African Americans

Condition
Hypertension
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Chicago

Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60422

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * At least 75 members and ability to recruit 15 study participants
  • * Predominantly African American congregants
  • * Age 18 or older
  • * Has blood pressure readings with uncontrolled blood pressure, defined as exceeding the blood thresholds for initiation of antihypertensive medication according to the 2017 American College of Cardiology/ American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines.
  • * Attends church (virtually or in-person) at least once per month
  • * Able to attend weekly Zoom meetings
  • * Consents and completes all baseline assessments
  • * Unable to make dietary changes due to lack of control over their food source (i.e., eat meals at shelter, nursing home)
  • * Has a medical condition that prohibits or severely restricts ability to eat vegetables (i.e., renal disease, Crohn's disease)
  • * Has a medical condition with an uncertain 6-month prognosis
  • * Inability to give informed consent (i.e., cognitive impairment, does not speak Englis
  • * Plans to move within the 6 months following enrollment
  • * Participated in prior ALIVE intervention
  • * Member of household participating in another church

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Rush University Medical Center,

Study Record Dates

2026-02