NCT00208104

Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing in Hypertensive African Americans

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 167 (actual)
• Sponsor: Columbia University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this project is to study ways to make it more likely that patients will take their blood pressure medicine as recommended by their doctors.

Detailed description

The objective of this randomized control trial is to evaluate, among 190 African-American patients with poorly controlled hypertension followed in a community-based primary care practice, whether motivational interviewing is more effective than usual care (routine counseling) in achieving adherence to prescribed blood pressure medications at 12 months. The project aims to: 1) determine whether patients who receive motivational interview counseling have greater reduction in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure than those in the control group at 12 months. Clinic blood pressure readings will be assessed at baseline and at every three months thereafter for one year and 2) assess the effect of self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation as potential mediators of motivational interview on adherence. Self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation will be assessed at baseline and every three months thereafter for one year.

Conditions

• Essential Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Motivational Interviewing	Trained nurses will interview the group using motivational interview counseling techniques. All sessions will be conducted with the aid of an adapted version of a standardized structured adherence counseling script. This script was specifically developed for use in medication adherence studies of HIV positive patients and has been provided for this trial.

Timeline

• Start date: 2002-07-01
• Primary completion: 2006-05-01
• Completion: 2008-09-01
• First posted: 2005-09-21
• Last updated: 2013-02-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States