NCT03375918

COmmuNity-engaged SimULation Training for Blood Pressure Control

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 118 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Worcester · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of CONSULT-BP is to train early-stage healthcare providers, including residents and nurse practitioner (NP) students, to mitigate providers' bias, improve communication skills, and enhance providers' ability to develop authentic and meaningful therapeutic alliances with patients. The study setting is an academic safety net hospital that serves a large non-White and poor population. The Investigators hypothesize that patients' outcomes (blood pressure levels) will be lower after the training intervention compared with before training (control) periods.

Detailed description

CONSULT-BP is an intervention to test a theory-based, 'awareness, exposure and skill-building' approach applied in the safety of a simulation-based learning center, to improve providers' interaction skills with minority and poor patients. The study included community-based participatory research input to develop and implement CONSULT-BP in an academic medical center with a large, safety-net health system which serves minority and poor population.

Conditions

• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	CONSULT-BP Educational Intervention	CONSULT-BP is a two sessions training provided to healthcare trainees over a 5-week period. The first session focused on (1) didactic overview of healthcare disparities, social drivers of health, implicit bias and systemic racism and (2) interactive discussions and patient storytelling videos to raise awareness of the bi-directional role of racial and ethnic identity among clinicians and patients. The second session focused on skill building and included (1) bias mitigation strategies based on the RELATE bias mitigation tool and (2) skill practice using 2 standardized patient simulated clinical encounters focusing on hypertension management challenges.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-13
• Primary completion: 2022-12-31
• Completion: 2024-01-31
• First posted: 2017-12-18
• Last updated: 2025-09-19
• Results posted: 2025-09-19

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: United States