Effect of a Community Health Worker-Led Multicomponent Intervention on Blood Pressure Control in Low-Income Patients in Argentina: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite extensive knowledge of hypertension treatment, the prevalence of uncontrolled hypertension is high and increasing in low- and middle-income countries.

Objective

To test whether a community health worker-led multicomponent intervention would improve blood pressure (BP) control among low-income patients with hypertension.

Design, setting, and participants

A cluster randomized trial was conducted in 18 centers for primary health care within a national public system providing free medications and health care to uninsured patients in Argentina. A total of 1432 low-income adult patients with uncontrolled hypertension were recruited between June 2013 and April 2015 and followed up to October 2016.

Interventions

Nine centers (743 patients) were rando

SUBMITTER: He J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5761321 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature