Activating Media for Salt Reduction

Hypertensive Disease Clinical Trial

Official title:

Activating Mass Media for Salt Reduction Program by Using Media Reporters as Research Investigators in a Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03074851
• Other study ID #: CoESeedGrant_04
• Secondary ID: CoESeedGrant_Med
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 2012
• Est. completion date: February 2017

Study information

• Verified date: April 2021
• Source: The George Institute for Global Health, China
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Mass media plays more and more important role in health education, especially in some chronic diseases which related closely with the behavior and habits. Past experience tells us that with the help of related health education in mass media such as newspaper articles, advertisements and videos on television, peoples can change their behaviors and habits in a short period of time. But when these educational information were stopped, peoples usually return to their original habits. Besides the national policy of the country how to improve the long-term health education in the mass media should be considered.This study hopes to seek an effective method to keep the mass media long-term focus on health education.

Description:

In this study, reporters just like researchers were in charge of the low-sodium salt intervention. Reporters are responsible for recommended objects and measure their blood pressure personally. By observing personally the change of blood pressure pre and post low-sodium salt intervention, reporters will increase their confidence and come to the conclusion that the low salt diet is an economical way to reduce blood pressure. Those reporters would share their experiment with other people including their colleagues, Hopefully, those reporters that took part in the trial would consciously keep a sustained focus to this topic, thereby retaining a long-time education in mass media.There were two interventions. One is low-sodium salt intervention and the other is informational intervention. Low-sodium salt intervention was carried out on those family members recommended by reporters, and informational intervention. Low-sodium salt intervention was only on the reporters. The evaluation criteria of low-sodium salt intervention is the blood pressure value, and the evaluation criteria of informational intervention are the numbers of related articles in certain newspaper and the awareness of related knowledges in local population.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 516
• Est. completion date: February 2017
• Est. primary completion date: February 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Come from local only Daily company;
• With a national press card;
• Health Column reporters preferred;
• Without leaving plan in the next 12 months;
• With easy access to at least 4 families, including relatives, friends or neighbour;
• Volunteered to participate.

Exclusion Criteria:

• n/a

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Hypertension
• Hypertensive Disease

Intervention

Dietary Supplement:
• low sodium salt
To give free low sodium salt intervention for 2 months

Other:
• informational intervention
to give reporter informational intervention.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
China	Changzhi medical college	Changzhi	Shanxi

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
The George Institute for Global Health, China

Country where clinical trial is conducted

China, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of local media reports on salt and health		5 years
Primary	Mean blood pressure	This outcome is only for the build-in randomised trial on salt substitute and blood pressure among reporters' families	2 months
Secondary	Awareness of knowledge on salt and health	A questionnaire will be applied to count the number of participants known the pre-specified answers to the questions raised on salt and health	5 years