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.

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-based...

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Main Authors: Dilan Giguruwa Gamage, Michaela A Riddell, Rohina Joshi, Kavumpurathu R Thankappan, Clara K Chow, Brian Oldenburg, Roger G Evans, Ajay S Mahal, Kartik Kalyanram, Kamakshi Kartik, Oduru Suresh, Nihal Thomas, Gomathyamma K Mini, Pallab K Maulik, Velandai K Srikanth, Simin Arabshahi, Ravi P Varma, Rama K Guggilla, Fabrizio D'Esposito, Thirunavukkarasu Sathish, Mohammed Alim, Amanda G Thrift
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002997

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002997

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