Effectiveness of Community Health Workers in Hypertension Adherence

Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Behavioral: Adherence

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05208320

8286

Details and patient eligibility

About

A community intervention in elderly hypertension patients by Community Health Workers in order to improve patients adherence to treatment

Enrollment: 537 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients aged 60 years and older who had been diagnosed with hypertension for more than 3 months at the time of the study were eligible for inclusion.

Exclusion criteria

• People who are not able to answer interviews or have mental illnesses.
• Those who, after being interviewed, re-confirmed that they did not have a diagnosis of hypertension from a medical facility.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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537 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention ward

Experimental group

Description:

Patients received interventions as follow: * The health education syllabus included 4 chapters: (1) introduction to hypertension, (2) complications of high blood pressure, (3) lifestyle management, and (4) SCORE - European High-Risk Chart * Home health education by Community Health Workers every month for 6 months

Treatment:

Behavioral: Adherence

control ward

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients received usual care, consisted of existing services in the community