Behavioral Economics Trial To Enhance Regulation of Blood Pressure (BETTER-BP)

NAActive, not recruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

401

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

July 14, 2020

Primary Completion Date

April 30, 2025

Study Completion Date

October 30, 2025

Conditions
High Blood Pressure
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Control Condition

3 in-person study visits, approximately one hour each. These will take place at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months.

BEHAVIORAL

Regret Lottery

"Delivered by the Way to Health platform, installed on a smartphone and communicates with participants via text message.Participants are eligible to receive a potential cash reward if they are adherent with their antihypertensive medication the day before, which is monitored via electronic monitoring device (EMD) from AdhereTech. Each participant is assigned a 2-digit number for the trial, and each day the Way to Health platform randomly generates a 2-digit number. Participants will receive a prize if both digits match (1 in 100 chance) and will receive a prize of lesser value if one digit matches (18 in 100 chance). If they are not adherent with their medication, but would have won if they were adherent, they receive a text message that they would have won (regret component)."

Trial Locations (1)

10016

NYU Langone Health, New York

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

NIH

lead

NYU Langone Health

OTHER