Does home-based screening improve hypertension diagnosis, treatment and control? A regression discontinuity analysis in urban India.

ABSTRACT: As part of India's efforts to expand primary healthcare services, several state governments are implementing or considering home-based hypertension screening programmes to improve population-wide diagnosis and blood pressure (BP) control rates. However, there is limited evidence on the effectiveness of home-based screening programmes in India. Using six waves of population-representative cohort data (N=15574), we estimate the causal effect of a home-based hypertension screening intervention on diagnosis, treatment, and BP using a novel application of the Regression Discontinuity Design. We find that measuring individuals' BP in their homes and providing health information and a referral to those with elevated BP did not meaningfully improve hypertension diagnosis (0.12 percentage points (p

SUBMITTER: Theilmann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12314835 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature