Activating Media for Salt Reduction

Activating Mass Media for Salt Reduction Program by Using Media Reporters as Research Investigators in a Randomized Controlled Trial

Mass media plays more and more important role in health education, especially in some chronic diseases which related closely with the behavior and habits. Past experience tells us that with the help of related health education in mass media such as newspaper articles, advertisements and videos on television, peoples can change their behaviors and habits in a short period of time. But when these educational information were stopped, peoples usually return to their original habits. Besides the national policy of the country how to improve the long-term health education in the mass media should be considered.This study hopes to seek an effective method to keep the mass media long-term focus on health education.

Study Overview

Detailed Description

In this study, reporters just like researchers were in charge of the low-sodium salt intervention. Reporters are responsible for recommended objects and measure their blood pressure personally. By observing personally the change of blood pressure pre and post low-sodium salt intervention, reporters will increase their confidence and come to the conclusion that the low salt diet is an economical way to reduce blood pressure. Those reporters would share their experiment with other people including their colleagues, Hopefully, those reporters that took part in the trial would consciously keep a sustained focus to this topic, thereby retaining a long-time education in mass media.There were two interventions. One is low-sodium salt intervention and the other is informational intervention. Low-sodium salt intervention was carried out on those family members recommended by reporters, and informational intervention. Low-sodium salt intervention was only on the reporters. The evaluation criteria of low-sodium salt intervention is the blood pressure value, and the evaluation criteria of informational intervention are the numbers of related articles in certain newspaper and the awareness of related knowledges in local population.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

516

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

    • Shanxi
      • Changzhi, Shanxi, China, 046000
        • Changzhi Medical College

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

20 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Come from local only Daily company;
  • With a national press card;
  • Health Column reporters preferred;
  • Without leaving plan in the next 12 months;
  • With easy access to at least 4 families, including relatives, friends or neighbour;
  • Volunteered to participate.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • n/a

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Salt Substitute
To seek the relationship between blood pressure and low sodium salt.
To give free low sodium salt intervention for 2 months
Other: informational intervention
to give 1 month informational intervention
to give reporter informational intervention.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Number of local media reports on salt and health
Time Frame: 5 years
5 years
Mean blood pressure
Time Frame: 2 months
This outcome is only for the build-in randomised trial on salt substitute and blood pressure among reporters' families
2 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Awareness of knowledge on salt and health
Time Frame: 5 years
A questionnaire will be applied to count the number of participants known the pre-specified answers to the questions raised on salt and health
5 years

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Investigators

  • Study Director: xiangxian feng, MD, Changzhi Medical College

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

December 1, 2012

Primary Completion (Actual)

February 1, 2017

Study Completion (Actual)

February 1, 2017

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

October 31, 2013

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 5, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

March 9, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 15, 2021

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 13, 2021

Last Verified

April 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • CoESeedGrant_04
  • CoESeedGrant_MediaReportor (Other Grant/Funding Number: united health group)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

UNDECIDED

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