Recruiting

Home Monitoring & Group Education

Sponsor:

Massachusetts General Hospital

Code:

NCT07091851

Conditions

Stroke

Hypertension

Home Blood Pressure Monitoring

Implementation Research

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 35+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Group medical visits and home blood pressure monitoring

Study Details

Brief summary:

The investigators want to improve care for people who have had a stroke. High blood pressure is the leading cause for having a second stroke and can lead to poor brain health. The goal of this study is to compare two new ways of lowering blood pressure. The first way is to help people check their blood pressure at home. The second way is to bring people together and learn about blood pressure in a group setting. The study team thinks that using both methods together will make it easier to lower blood pressure after a stroke. The study team needs this study to test these two methods together in people who have had a stroke. The investigators believe this is an important study because having high blood pressure makes having another stroke very likely. Therefore, the investigators want to lower blood pressure in people with strokes to keep their brains as healthy as possible and to help with stroke recovery.

Conditions

Stroke

Hypertension

Home Blood Pressure Monitoring

Implementation Research

Study ID

NCT07091851

Start date

Sep 22, 2025

Status verified date

Sep, 2025

Completion date

Apr 30, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jan 30, 2028

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 35+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Incident, mild to moderate, ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke (NIHSS≤15, ICH score≤3)
  • history or new diagnosis of hypertension
  • ability to read and speak English
  • internet access
  • established primary care physician at MGH

Exclusion Criteria:

  • severe stroke (NIHSS>15, ICH score>3)
  • discharge location to inpatient rehabilitation or skilled nursing facility
  • dementia
  • subjects with moderate to severe aphasia without a caregiver to consent on their behalf

Study Design

Enrollment

50 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

active comparator: Control

Home blood pressure monitoring alone

Interventions

Group medical visits and home blood pressure monitoring

This arm will receive instructions for home blood pressure monitoring but also be enrolled in group medical visits.

Primary outcome measure

  • Systolic Blood Pressure [ Time Frame: three months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Nirupama Yechoor, MD, MSc

857-282-5184nyechoor@mgh.harvard.edu

Locations

Massachusetts General Hospital

Recruiting

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115

Contacts

Nirupama Yechoor, MD, MSC

8572825184nyechoor@mgh.harvard.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Massachusetts General Hospital

Last update posted

Sep 25, 2025

Last verified

Sep, 2025

Keywords

  • stroke
  • post-stroke hypertension
  • implementation science

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Massachusetts General Hospital on 2025-09-25.