NCT06920563

Remote Postpartum Blood Pressure Monitoring and Cardiovascular Education

Remote Postpartum Blood Pressure Monitoring and Cardiovascular Education to Reduce Emergency Department Visits, Re-admissions and Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Hypertensive Disorder of Pregnancy

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 296 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ochsner Health System · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if patient education and regular text reminders are a feasible intervention to engage patients and reduce post partum hypertension. The main questions it aims to answer are: Is a structured postpartum remote blood pressure monitoring intervention with education and individualized medication initiation/adjustment follow-up by televisit feasible? Does a structured program reduce the occurrence of postpartum hypertension, ED visits, hospital readmissions, and adverse outcomes? Participants will: View an educational video on HDP post-delivery Receive 1-2 times daily text messages for 6 weeks postpartum Have their blood pressure medications adjusted to lower targets post partum

Conditions

• Pre-Eclampsia; Complicating Pregnancy
• Gestational Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Video	Those in the intervention arm will watch a short educational video.
OTHER	Text Reminder	Those in the intervention group will receive regular text message reminders to check their blood pressures
OTHER	Blood pressure threshold	Those in the intervention group will have a lower blood pressure threshold to titrate their BP medications towards

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-03-17
• Primary completion: 2026-10-16
• Completion: 2026-10-16
• First posted: 2025-04-09
• Last updated: 2025-04-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States