Clinical trials

The research project will involve community health workers (CHWs) that will help participants to better understand their medical conditions and to responsibly manage their medical needs. The project will focus on participants with the greatest medical needs and those that have many different illnesses at the same time. CHWs will help guide participants in focusing on improving their knowledge and confidence to manage their health conditions and to improve their ability to understand how the healthcare system works. This will give participants the opportunity to take charge of their illnesses and possibly improve their health conditions over time. The CHWs will work together with participants to develop a health plan focused on their specific health needs.

This project is focuses on reducing the risk and progression of hypertension among a population that records high incidence of hypertension and other chronic ailments such as heart disease, diabetes, kidney failure, and obesity, with similar control measures. Several clinical trials over the last five decades have emphasized the importance of supportive lifestyle modification in the control of chronic disease that include a healthy diet, physical activity, quitting tobacco use, reducing alcohol use to the minimum, self-management of the disease, and adequate sleep. Study participants will receive motivation and skill development support in additional to specific nutrition, physical fitness, and self-management counselling from certified experts. This intervention incorporates elements of the American Heart Association prescription for health, Life's Simple 7 (LS7) lifestyle modification, the Dietary Approaches to preventing Hypertension (DASH) eating plan. After receiving these interventions, participants will be contacted at 3-months, 6-months, and 12-months for follow-up. They will complete similar surveys to be compared to determine impact on their hypertension. This intervention is complementary to usual pharmaceutical hypertension management.

The purpose of this study is to adapt, implement and evaluate a trauma and violence informed care intervention designed for Black women in middle Tennessee.