Cohort profile: the open, prospective Community-Based chronic Care Lesotho (ComBaCaL) cohort - design, baseline chronic disease risk factors and hypertension and diabetes care cascades.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The open, prospective Community-Based chronic Care Lesotho (ComBaCaL) cohort is the first study to comprehensively investigate socioeconomic indicators, common chronic diseases and their risk factors in a remote rural setting in Lesotho. It serves as a platform for implementing nested trials using the Trials within Cohorts (TwiCs) design to assess community-based chronic care interventions. In this study, we present the cohort's sociodemographic and chronic disease risk factor profile, including self-reported HIV prevalence and hypertension and diabetes care cascades.

Participants

Since February 2023, community health worker (CHWs) supported by a clinical decision support and data collection application have enrolled inhabitants from 103 randomly selected rural villa

SUBMITTER: Gerber F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12306284 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature