Comparing of Different Visual Aids Like Video,info-graphics and Pamphlets in Enhancing Community Awareness and Promoting Behavioral Change Towards the Prevention of Hypertension in Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity Onitsha Anambra State,Nigeria

Comparison of Different Visual Aids in Enhancing Community Awareness and Promoting Behavioral Change in the Prevention of Hypertension in Anambra State,Nigeria

The goal of this observational study is to assess different level of enhanced awareness and behavioral change of adults over the age of 35 who will be educated using video,infographic and pamphlet for the interval of one month

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Hypertension
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Intervention study for Arm one using video; Behavioral: intervention 2:using infographics; Behavioral: intervention 3: use of pamphlet

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 81
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Perpetua C Ottiwu, Masters; Phone Number: +2340832605330; Email: m232417@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Moriyama Michiko, PHD; Phone Number: +81-82-257-5365; Email: morimich@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Study Locations

• Nigeria
  • Japan
    • Kasumi 1-2-3 Minami-ku, Japan, Nigeria
      • Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences Hiroshima University
      • Contact: Moriyama Michiko, PHD; Phone Number: +81-82-257-5365; Email: morimich@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
      • Contact: Clementina Nwankwo, PHD
      • Contact: Blessing Onyeje, PHD
      • Contact: Babaita Abdulfatia, Masters

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adults age over 35 years old
• Who does not know his/her blood pressure status within the last 6 months (The person who does not know he or she has a hypertension or not.)
• Who agree to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

• Who cannot come to the church 4 weeks later after the intervention.
• Known hypertensive patients

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Triple

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: intervention group using video; Administration of video to the first intervention group	Behavioral: Intervention study for Arm one using video; A 3 Arm randomized control trial, using video as the first Arm of intervention to assess the behaviour change of the community in hypertension prevention.
Other: intervention group using infographics; Administration of infographics to the second arm of the intervention group	Behavioral: intervention 2:using infographics; A 3 Arm randomized control trial,that involves the use of infographics in Arm to assess the behaviour change of the community in hypertension prevention.
Other: control group using pamphlet; Administration of pamphlet to the control groups	Behavioral: intervention 3: use of pamphlet; A 3 Arm randomized control trial,that contains the use of pamphlet for the 3rd Arm which is the control group to assess the behaviour change of the community in hypertension prevention.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Behavioural change in hypertension prevetion	Behaviour changes within 1 month related to education - Asking what kind of behaviour change occurred during 1 month Percentage caculation of participants who had behaviour change Each arm: Number of person who changed their behaviour/total number of participants in the arm	One month

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in the awareness level of participants from baseline after 4 week	- Awareness check: Using the Health belief model-The researchers-developed questionnaire:How much they are motivated (pre and post comparison)	4 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hiroshima University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Estimated): January 5, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): February 5, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): April 5, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 15, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 5, 2025
• First Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 5, 2025
• Last Verified: January 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Behavioural change in hypertension prevention
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Vascular Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases; Hypertension
• Other Study ID Numbers: MH/COMM/523/VOL.111

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: To ensure confidentiality

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No