Supporting Self-Management of Healthy Behaviors in Diabetes, Kidney Disease, and Hypertension

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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, 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.

Conditions:

🦠 Renal Insufficiency, Chronic 🦠 Hypertension 🦠 Diabetes

🗓️ Study Start (Actual) 21 August 2023

🗓️ Primary Completion (Estimated) December 2024

✅ Study Completion (Estimated) March 2025

👥 Enrollment (Estimated) 60

🔬 Study Type INTERVENTIONAL

📊 Phase NA

Locations:

📍 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

📋 Eligibility Criteria

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

* diagnosis of chronic kidney disease (any stage), hypertension, diabetes
* followed at University of Pennsylvania nephrology practice
* aged 18 years or over. -
* own a smart device (smartphone or tablet) capable of connecting to the internet and has Bluetooth enabled technology
* able to comprehend English.
* a mean blood pressure reading of \<180/100 mmHg in person study visit
* able and willing to provide informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

* inability to provide consent or read or speak English
* inability to self-monitor (e.g., diagnosis of dementia, cognitive impairment, physically unable to set up BP cuff and machine)
* already participating in another blood pressure study or intervention trial
* vulnerable populations, living in a long-term care or rehabilitation institution,
* if likely to have their care transferred to another facility outside participating clinic areas during the course of the study
* planning to travel or live consecutively out of the country for more than one month
* mean blood pressure reading of \>180/100 mmHg at in person study visit
* hypertension not managed by the nephrologist in Penn Medicine
* any other reason they do not expect to be able to complete the study.

Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years to N/A (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)

Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

🗓️ Study Record Dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted 5 July 2022
First Submitted that Met QC Criteria 29 September 2022
First Posted 4 October 2022

Study Record Updates

Last Update Submitted that Met QC Criteria 18 June 2024
Last Update Posted 20 June 2024
Last Verified June 2024