Acceptability of a community health worker-led health literacy intervention on lifestyle modification among hypertensive and diabetes patients in the City of Harare, Zimbabwe.

ABSTRACT: Working with community health workers is a vital strategy to improve health at a community level in low- and middle-income countries. Our study assessed the acceptability of a community health worker-led health literacy intervention on lifestyle modification among hypertensive and diabetes patients in the City of Harare, Zimbabwe. The intervention consisted of face-to-face individual educational sessions and support visits, delivered by trained community health workers at either the patient's home or the primary care clinic. We embedded this qualitative study within a cluster randomized trial, which assessed the intervention's effectiveness. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews with 3 community health nurses and 25 patients as well as 3 focus group discussions with CHWs. We analy

SUBMITTER: Katena NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11809805 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature