Medical Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2007

Mentor: Dr. Joseph Ravenell
Department: Division of Hypertension, Internal Medicine
Room number: J4.130
Mail Code: 8586
Phone number: (214) 648-9128
E-mail: Joseph.Ravenell@utsouthwestern.edu
Project title: Improving Prescribing Behavior in Physicians Who Care for Hypertensive African American Men

Human subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable): 082006-051

Animal subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable):

Project Type (patient-based research, animal-based research, or basic research; this characterization is only to permit a general classification for grouping similar types of projects)

Patient-based research

Brief Description of Project:

The purpose of this study to develop and test the effectiveness of a novel behavior theory-based intervention to overcome key informational and motivational barriers to managing hypertension among physicians who treat hypertensive African American men.

The proposed study design employs a step-wise approach to develop and test a tailored intervention to change how physicians prescribe medications to patients with hypertension in two phases: 1) a pilot phase in which we will develop, test and refine a video-based intervention, and 2) a randomized trial of the intervention in physicians who care for Black men. The intervention is anchored by a physician training video we are currently developing that addresses informational and motivational barriers to antihypertensive prescribing including lack of knowledge of the number of antihypertensive classes needed to control hypertension in high risk Black men, an d low expectations of therapeutic success in treating Black men with hypertension. *

* Description provided with permission from Dr. Ravenell from IRB proposal

Previous Research Activities or Publications with Medical Students:

Project 4: Preventing Hypertensive Heart Disease in a High-Risk Population", IRB #102004-011

This project is a continuation of the study cited above.

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