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NCT number NCT06187077
Other study ID # 23-011118
Secondary ID
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date May 2024
Est. completion date June 30, 2026

Study information

Verified date May 2024
Source Mayo Clinic
Contact LaPrincess Brewer, MD, MPH
Phone 507-538-2517
Email Brewer.LaPrincess@mayo.edu
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to engage African-American churches via an established community-academic partnership (FAITH! Program) to build capacity to promote cardiovascular health and digital health equity in African-American faith communities. There are 3 study aims: Aim 1: Co-design a culturally tailored digital health equity toolkit with community members Aim 2: Train a network of Digital Health Advocates (DHAs) in digital health equity and cardiovascular health promotion Aim 3: Test the impact of a DHA-enhanced mobile health intervention (the FAITH! App) on cardiovascular health and digital health readiness among participants In Aim 1, participants will attend a series of focus groups to share their input on a digital health equity curriculum that will be condensed into a toolkit. In Aim 2, DHAs will be trained using this toolkit as well as a community health advocacy curriculum to learn how to promote digital health readiness and cardiovascular health in their communities. Finally, Aim 3 will be a randomized controlled trial where participants will use the FAITH! App to improve their cardiovascular health. Some participants will have the added support of a DHA, and the control group participants will use the app with no additional support to test whether the DHA support is associated with a more significant improvement in cardiovascular health.


Description:

This study addresses cardiovascular health and digital health disparities faced by African-Americans (AAs). We propose three aims to engage with the AA community and build capacity for a digital literacy and cardiovascular health promotion. Aim 1 will engage AA churches to co-design a culturally relevant digital health equity toolkit through an iterative focus group process. In aim 1, we will recruit 20 AAs to represent their churches and be trained as digital health advocates (DHAs) by completing digital health readiness education (using the toolkit developed in aim 1) and cardiovascular health promotion. This advocacy program will be integrated into an existing mobile health intervention, the FAITH! App, in Aim 3. The impact of the community-informed, mHealth intervention, enhanced with DHA support, on AA adults' cardiovascular health will be assessed in a cluster randomized controlled trial. 150 participants will be be randomized to utilize the FAITH! App alone or with the support of the DHA at their church. Cardiovascular health will be assessed at baseline, approximately 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months post-randomization using the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8 metric for cardiovascular health.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Recruiting
Enrollment 150
Est. completion date June 30, 2026
Est. primary completion date January 31, 2026
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Aim 1- Inclusion Criteria: African/American race/ethnicity, age = 18 years, basic Internet navigation skills, active email address Aim 2- Inclusion Criteria: African/American race/ethnicity, age = 18 years, ownership of smartphone (supporting iOS or Android systems), moderate to high digital health literacy (by eHealth literacy scale [eHEALS], score =26) Aim 3- Inclusion Criteria: African/American race/ethnicity, age = 18 years, ownership of smartphone (supporting iOS or Android systems), low digital health literacy (by eHEALS, score =26), basic Internet navigation skills, at least weekly Internet access, active email address, fruit/vegetable intake =5 servings/day, no regular physical activity, able to engage in moderate physical activity and willingness to participate in all aspects of the study. Exclusion Criteria: Unable to walk up =2 flights of stairs or walk =1 city block without assistance or stopping, pregnant (at time of study enrollment), visual/hearing impairment or mental disability that would preclude independent app use.

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Behavioral:
DHA-Enhanced FAITH! App
This group of participants will follow an 11-week guided intervention with the FAITH! App. Weekly educational modules provide information on components of cardiovascular health (CVH). Participants are given a Fitbit to track physical activity, which will automatically synch to the app and will be asked to track their daily fruit and vegetable intake on the app. DHAs will promote CVH and digital health readiness as peer mentors by guiding participants through the educational modules and encouraging use of the additional interactive app features. During the guided intervention phase, they will facilitate weekly visits with participants in their church, which will follow the FAITH! App modules and integrate a digital health topic. Following the 11-week guided intervention, participants will have a 12-month maintenance phase with access to use the app as they wish.
FAITH! App
This group of participants will follow an 11-week guided intervention with the FAITH! App. Each week, an educational module is completed in the app, which provides information on a component of cardiovascular health. Participants will be given a Fitbit to track their physical activity, which will automatically synch to the app, and will be asked to track their daily fruit and vegetable intake on the app as well. Following the 11-week guided intervention, participants will have a 12-month maintenance phase in which they will have access to use the app as they wish.

Locations

Country Name City State
United States Mayo Clinic in Rochester Rochester Minnesota

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Mayo Clinic Association of Black Cardiologists, Johns Hopkins University, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Life's Essential 8 Composite Score change Changes from baseline in Life's Essential 8 score. Life's Essential 8 composite score is determined as a composite of all components by calculating an unweighted average score on a scale of 0 to 100 points. An overall cardiovascular health score (Life's Essential 8 score) will be considered high (80 to 100 points), moderate (50 to 79 points) or low for (0 to 49 points). Baseline, 6-months and 12-months post-randomization
Primary Blood Pressure Score Change (Life's Essential 8 Component) Average of 3 sitting measurements of systolic and diastolic pressures (mmHg). Baseline, 6-months and 12-months post-randomization
Primary Fasting Glucose/Hemoglobin A1c Score Change (Life's Essential 8 Component) Fingerstick blood collection (fasting glucose-mg/dL; Hemoglobin A1c-%). Baseline, 6-months and 12-months post-randomization
Primary Fasting Blood Lipids Score Change (non-HDL cholesterol) (Life's Essential 8 Component) Fingerstick blood collection (mg/dL). Baseline, 6-months and 12-months post-randomization
Primary Body Mass Index (BMI) Score Change (Life's Essential 8 Component) Calculated by weight (kg) and height (m). Baseline, 6-months and 12-months post-randomization
Primary Tobacco/Nicotine Exposure Score Change (Life's Essential 8 Component) Changes from baseline in smoking status using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey-Smoking-Cigarette Use Questionnaire (NHANES-SMQ), evaluating current and past tobacco use habits. Baseline, 6-months and 12-months post-randomization
Primary Dietary Quality Score Change (Life's Essential 8 Component) Changes from baseline in healthy diet using the Mediterranean Eating Patterns for Americans (MEPA), a 16-item questionnaire evaluating accordance with a Mediterranean-like diet pattern. Baseline, 6-months and 12-months post-randomization
Primary Physical Activity Score Change (Life's Essential 8 Component) Change from baseline in the total minutes per week that a participant engaged in moderate and vigorous intensity physical activity at immediate post-intervention. Physical activity will be measured by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Baseline, 6-months and 12-months post-randomization
Primary Sleep Health Score Change (Life's Essential 8 Component) Changes from baseline in sleep quality (number of hours of sleep nightly) using the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Baseline, 6-months and 12-months post-randomization
Secondary Digital Health Readiness Assessed using a validated, 20-item instrument that captures 5 domains: digital skills, digital usage, digital literacy, digital health literacy, and digital learnability adapted for all digital health technologies such as smartphone apps. Baseline, 3 months post-randomization
Secondary Social Support - Diet Diet social support measured using the Social Support for Eating Habits Survey scale. This scale assesses the level of encouragement or discouragement from family and friends that participants received for adopting healthier eating habits. 5 questions were asked to assess the degree of encouragement and discouragement, separately, on a 5-point scale [from 1 (none) to 5 (very often)]. Each sub-item was summed to obtain a score ranging from 5 (lowest) to 25 (highest discouragement/encouragement). The change in level of diet social support was calculated from baseline to 6 months post-intervention. Higher scores indicate more change in social support for healthy eating. Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months post-randomization
Secondary Self Regulation - Diet Diet self-regulation measured by the Health Beliefs Survey to assess strategies used in the past 3 months to eat healthier foods. Items are measured on a five-point scale from 1 (never) to 5 (always). A mean of all items is obtained and a difference between the scores is calculated. Higher change in scores indicate more change in use of self-regulation strategies to promote healthy eating. Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months post-randomization
Secondary Perceived Barriers - Diet Changes from baseline to 12 months post-intervention in diet perceived barriers measured by Barriers to Diet and Exercise questionnaire. The 39-item instrument is measured on a five-point scale from 1 (not at all true for me) to 5 (very true for me); participants indicate the extent to which each factor has made it difficult for them to follow appropriate eating and exercise habits in the past 6 months. Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months post-randomization
Secondary Social Support - Physical Activity Physical activity social support measured using the Social Support for Exercise Survey scale. This scale assesses the level of encouragement or discouragement from family and friends that participants received for adopting healthier physical activity habits. 5 questions were asked to assess the degree of encouragement and discouragement, separately, on a 5-point scale [from 1 (none) to 5 (very often)]. Each sub-item was summed to obtain a score ranging from 5 (lowest) to 25 (highest discouragement/encouragement). The change in level of physical activity social support was calculated from baseline to 6 months post-intervention. Higher scores indicate more change in social support for physical activity. Family Participation was calculated as a sum of 10 items: 10 = low to 50 = high; Family Rewards/Punishment as a sum of 3 items: 3 = low to 15 = high; and Friend Participation sum of 10 items: 10 = low to 50 = high. Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months post-randomization
Secondary Self Regulation - Physical Activity Physical activity self-regulation measured by the Health Beliefs Survey to assess strategies used in the past 3 months to increase their step count or physical activity levels. Items are measured on a 10-item five-point scale from 1 (never) to 5 (always). The mean of the ten items is obtained. The difference in the mean scores from baseline to 6 months post-intervention is calculated. Larger change in scores indicate more change in self-regulation. Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months post-randomization
Secondary Perceived Barriers - Physical Activity Changes from baseline to 12 months post-intervention in diet perceived barriers measured by Barriers to Diet and Exercise questionnaire. The 39-item instrument is measured on a five-point scale from 1 (not at all true for me) to 5 (very true for me); participants indicate the extent to which each factor has made it difficult for them to follow appropriate eating and exercise habits in the past 6 months. Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months post-randomization
Secondary Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Electrocardiogram (ECG) Standard 12-lead ECG to be analyzed by a Mayo Clinic AI-enhanced ECG model for detection of left ventricular dysfunction and correlation of actual age and AI-ECG predicted age. Baseline, 6 months and 12 months post-randomization
Secondary Cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) The cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) is a measure of arterial stiffness that reflects the stiffness from the ascending aorta to the ankle arteries. Normal CAVI values are less than 8 and values greater than or equal to 9 are classified as abnormal. Baseline, 6 months and 12 months post-randomization
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