Effectiveness of a scalable group-based education and monitoring program, delivered by health workers, to improve control of hypertension in rural India: A cluster randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: New methods are required to manage hypertension in resource-poor settings. We hypothesised that a community health worker (CHW)–led group-based education and monitoring intervention would improve control of blood pressure (BP). METHODS AND FINDINGS: We conducted a baseline community-base...

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Vydáno v:PLoS Med
Hlavní autoři: Gamage, Dilan Giguruwa, Riddell, Michaela A., Joshi, Rohina, Thankappan, Kavumpurathu R., Chow, Clara K., Oldenburg, Brian, Evans, Roger G., Mahal, Ajay S., Kalyanram, Kartik, Kartik, Kamakshi, Suresh, Oduru, Thomas, Nihal, Mini, Gomathyamma K., Maulik, Pallab K., Srikanth, Velandai K., Arabshahi, Simin, Varma, Ravi P., Guggilla, Rama K., D’Esposito, Fabrizio, Sathish, Thirunavukkarasu, Alim, Mohammed, Thrift, Amanda G.
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: Public Library of Science 2020
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6939905/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31895945
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002997
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