Storytelling may boost blood thinner use in black heart patients
NCT ID NCT05997914
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether watching storytelling videos can help African American and Black patients with atrial fibrillation (an irregular heartbeat) start and continue taking blood thinners to prevent strokes. About 80 adults who are not currently on blood thinners but have a high stroke risk will be randomly assigned to watch the videos or receive standard care. The goal is to see if this approach is acceptable, feasible, and effective at increasing medication use.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 80 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2024
- Expected to finish
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Nov 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * African-American patients aged 18 or older with elevated stroke risk (CHA2DS2-VASc ≥2 for men and ≥3 for women) who are not currently on anticoagulation (AC) but for whom a cardiology provider or primary care provider at the two study sites recommended AC recently Exclusion Criteria: * Non-African American and other non-Black patients under the age of 18 patients without an ICD-10 diagnostic code consistent with AF or atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter * Patient without a visit with a primary care provider, cardiovascular medicine specialist, or ambulatory care provider in the previous one year * Patient who is pregnant or a prisoner. * Patients with left atrial appendage surgery or device, hospice status, ongoing bleeding, and intracranial bleeding in intralobar territory
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Conditions
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The places running it
4 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Decentralized
Worcester, Massachusetts, 01655, United States
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Luis Ortega Paz
Jacksonville, Florida, 32209, United States
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UMass Chan Medical School
Worcester, Massachusetts, 01655, United States
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University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, United States
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