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NCT03749499: TOUCHED

Targeting of UnControlled Hypertension in Emergency Department

Completed NA Results posted Last updated 18 June 2025
What this trial tests

NA trial testing HTN Educational Video in Hypertension in 574 participants. Completed in 31 March 2023.

Timeline
19 February 2019
Primary endpoint
31 March 2023
31 March 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsorUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
PhaseNA
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationrandomized
Designparallel
Maskingsingle
Primary purposescreening
Enrollment574
Start date19 February 2019
Primary completion31 March 2023
Estimated completion31 March 2023
Sites1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

University of Illinois at Chicago

Who can join

Adults 18 to 75, any sex, with Hypertension or Cardiovascular Diseases. 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.

Mean Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) Difference at 6 Months Post-intervention Compared to Usual Care. Primary · Baseline, 6 months after baseline

Blood pressure will be collected at two time points (baseline and 6 months). ED-pharmacists and trained research assistants will perform BP measurements using standardized procedures.

GroupValue95% CI
Usual Care-9.2± 24.4
Educational and Empowerment Intervention-14.0± 19.3
Mean Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) and Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP) Differences at 3 Months Post-intervention Compared to Usual Care. Secondary · Baseline, 3 months after baseline

Blood pressure will be collected at two time points (baseline and 3 months). ED-pharmacists and trained research assistants will perform BP measurements using standardized procedures.

SBP
GroupValue95% CI
Usual Care-9.8± 22.5
Educational and Empowerment Intervention-14± 20.5
DBP
GroupValue95% CI
Usual Care-1.5± 13.4
Educational and Empowerment Intervention-2.4± 11.7
Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP) Difference at 6 Months Post-intervention Compared to Usual Care. Secondary · Baseline, 6 months after baseline

Blood pressure will be collected at two time points (baseline and 6 months). ED-pharmacists and trained research assistants will perform BP measurements using standardized procedures.

GroupValue95% CI
Usual Care-1.3± 14.5
Educational and Empowerment Intervention-3.3± 12.1

Sponsor's own description

The proposed project underscores the following: 1) The prevalence of uncontrolled/undiagnosed hypertension (HTN) in underrepresented groups presenting to the ED is alarmingly high, and 2) ED engagement and early risk assessment/stratification is a cost-effective, feasible innovation to help close health disparity gaps in HTN. This proposal involves a two-arm randomized controlled trial of up to 770 patients from the Emergency Department at University of Illinois Hospital with elevated blood pressure (BP). The primary objective is to determine the effectiveness of an emergency department-initiated Educational and Empowerment (E2) intervention with a Post Acute Care Hypertension Consultation (PACHT-c) intervention (arm 2) on the primary outcome of mean systolic blood pressure (SBP) differences between the two trial arms at 6-months post intervention. Secondary objectives include evaluating the effectiveness of this ED education and empowerment intervention on mean SBP and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) differences at 3-months, and mean DBP differences at 6-months.

Publications & conference data

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

  1. Emergency Department-Based Education and mHealth Empowerment Intervention for Hypertension: The TOUCHED Randomized Clinical Trial.
    Prendergast H, Kitsiou S, Petzel Gimbar R, Freels S, et al · · 2025 · cited 5× · PMID 40266598 · DOI 10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0675
  2. Targeting of uncontrolled hypertension in the emergency department (TOUCHED): Design of a randomized controlled trial.
    Prendergast HM, Petzel-Gimbar R, Kitsiou S, Del Rios M, et al · · 2021 · cited 5× · PMID 33484897 · DOI 10.1016/j.cct.2021.106283

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