Recruiting

Education with POCUS

Sponsor:

Rush University Medical Center

Code:

NCT06769880

Conditions

Heart Diseases

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 45+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Ultrasound and Educational Intervention

Educational Intervention Alone

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if using point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) can increase participant engagement and changes in behavior among adults with risk factors for pre-symptomatic heart failure presenting to the emergency department. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Does POCUS increase understanding of heart failure and the likelihood to improve diet, exercise, and follow up?
2. Does POCUS improve diet, exercise, follow up, and self-efficacy at three months post-intervention?

Researchers will compare an educational intervention with versus without POCUS to see if POCUS works to improve outcomes.

Participants will:

Receive either the educational intervention alone or an educational intervention plus POCUS. They will report the difference in their understanding and likelihood to improve diet, exercise, and follow up immediately post-intervention. They will also report changes in diet, exercise, follow up, and self-efficacy at three months post-intervention.

Conditions

Heart Diseases

Study ID

NCT06769880

Start date

Oct 13, 2025

Status verified date

Oct, 2025

Completion date

Sep 30, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jun 30, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 45+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Must be 45 years of age or older
  • Must have high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, or obesity (body mass index ≥30 kg/m2)

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Symptoms of acute heart failure (difficulty breathing, leg swelling)
  • History of heart failure
  • Unable to tolerate an ultrasound examination
  • No access to a phone for follow up

Study Design

Enrollment

100 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

placebo comparator: Educational Intervention Alone

experimental: Ultrasound and Educational Intervention

Interventions

Ultrasound and Educational Intervention

This will include the educational intervention combined with a point-of-care ultrasound

Educational Intervention Alone

This will include only the educational intervention (without ultrasound)

Primary outcome measure

  • Rate of Primary Care Follow Up [ Time Frame: 3 Months Post-Intervention ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Locations

Rush University Medical Center

Recruiting

Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

Michael Gottlieb, MD

More Information

Sponsor

Rush University Medical Center

Last update posted

Nov 21, 2025

Last verified

Oct, 2025

Keywords

  • POCUS
  • Ultrasound
  • Ultrasonography
  • Echocardiography

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Rush University Medical Center on 2025-11-21.