Twitter and CV Health

NCT02622256 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 5R01HL122457-02
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 611
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Cardiovascular (CV) disease is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. In the current digital age, needed is a better understanding of how information on social media sites may inform our approaches to improving CV health through novel methodologies. Investigators propose to study the conversation on Twitter about several CV diseases and their associated sequelae.

Conditions

Cardiovascular Disease; Hypertension

Keywords

Social Media; Twitter; Hypertension; Cardiovascular; CVD; HTN

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Blood Pressure

  5mm difference pre- study compared with post- study

  6 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Patient Activation

  6 months

Study Arms (2)

Health System: HTN Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Investigators will identify patients with known hypertension (ICD-9 code 401.9), from the Penn Data Store (PDS). Participants will be asked to complete 3 short surveys.

Behavioral: Health System: HTN Intervention

Health System: HTN Control, survey only

NO INTERVENTION

Investigators will identify patients with known hypertension (ICD-9 code 401.9), from the Penn Data Store (PDS). Participants will be asked to complete 3 short surveys. Participants in this arm will be exposed to daily messages about heart health and asked to tweet about health.

Interventions

Health System: HTN Intervention BEHAVIORAL

Interested participants can enroll online via a Twitter link. Patients will consent to having their electronic health records accessed to validate clinical data. Participants will complete short surveys. The project Twitter account would follow tweeters with high impact CV messages and tweet daily high impact and accurate CV health messages (identified in aim 3). Participants will follow the study team \& may receive daily private heart health messages via Twitter. This would allow participants to see CV health messages posted in the words and context of patients that may be similar to them, participate in online CV health discussions, and access CV health networks that they may not otherwise know about. Participants will also tweet heart health messages weekly.

Health System: HTN Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 21 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Twitter users at least 21 years of age with diabetes and, or hypertension

You may not qualify if:

• Anyone below the age of 21
• no diagnosis of hypertension
• not pregnant

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Pennsylvania: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Mancheno C, Asch DA, Klinger EV, Goldshear JL, Mitra N, Buttenheim AM, Barg FK, Ungar LH, Yang L, Merchant RM. Effect of Posting on Social Media on Systolic Blood Pressure and Management of Hypertension: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 Oct 5;10(19):e020596. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.120.020596. Epub 2021 Sep 24.

  PMID: 34558301 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Cardiovascular Diseases; Hypertension

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Vascular Diseases

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 23, 2015
• First Posted: December 4, 2015
• Study Start: June 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2018
• Study Completion: November 1, 2018
• Last Updated: January 24, 2019

Record last verified: 2018-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)