NCT03375918: CONSULT-BP

COmmuNity-engaged SimULation Training for Blood Pressure Control

Completed NA Results posted Last updated 19 September 2025

What this trial tests

NA trial testing CONSULT-BP Educational Intervention in Hypertension in 118 participants. Completed in 31 January 2024.

Timeline

13 August 2018

Primary endpoint
31 December 2022

31 January 2024

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Massachusetts, Worcester
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	sequential
Masking	none
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	118
Start date	13 August 2018
Primary completion	31 December 2022
Estimated completion	31 January 2024
Sites	4 locations across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• CONSULT-BP Educational Intervention

Conditions studied

• Hypertension — all drugs for Hypertension →

Sponsor

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Hypertension. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Results — posted to ClinicalTrials.gov

Per-arm endpoint measurements with 95% confidence intervals where reported. Source: trial results section.

Blood Pressure Primary · Control period is 6 months before the intervention and intervention period is up to 6 months after the intervention

Systolic and diastolic blood pressure of patients treated by the participating clinician trainees as reported in the Electronic Medical Record.

Systolic Blood Pressure

Group	Value	95% CI
Patients - Pre CONSULT-BP Intervention	137.6	± 18.6
Patients - Post-Intervention	136.4	± 18.6

Diastolic BloodPressure

Group	Value	95% CI
Patients - Pre CONSULT-BP Intervention	82.1	± 11.1
Patients - Post-Intervention	81.8	± 10.8

RELATE Checklist, a Standardized Patient Rating Scale for Bias-Mitigating and Patient-Centered Communication Secondary · During CONSULT-BP session 2 clinician training intervention (simulated standardized patient encounter)

The RELATE (Respect, Empathize, Listen, Ask, Talk, Engage) is a 19-item checklist completed by an informant group of "standardized" patients during a simulated standardized patient encounter to evaluate interaction with the participating clinicians. The RELATE checklist contains 4 factors: Respect (4 items), Empathetic Listening (5 items); Ask and Talk (Inquiry, 6 items), and Engagement in Partnership (4 items). The checklist scores are from 0 to 38, with higher scores reflecting better communication from the perspective of the "standardized" patient.

Group	Value	95% CI
Healthcare Trainees	32.7	± 5.0

Sponsor's own description

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.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. COmmuNity-engaged SimULation Training for Blood Pressure Control (CONSULT-BP): A study protocol.
   Tjia J, Pugnaire M, Calista J, Esparza N, et al · · 2021 · cited 7× · PMID 33592827 · DOI 10.1097/md.0000000000023680
2. Mitigating Implicit Bias in Patient-Clinician Communication in Clinical Encounters: Protocol from the COmmuNity-engaged SimULation Training (CONSULT) Trial
   Tjia J, Pugnaire M, Calista J, Esparza N, et al · · 2020 · DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-39615/v2