Cardiovascular risk factor reduction by community health workers in rural India: A cluster randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a need to identify and test low-cost approaches for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reduction that can enable health systems to achieve such a strategy.

Objective

Community health workers (CHWs) are an integral part of health-care delivery system in lower income countries. Our aim was to assess impact of CHW based interventions in reducing CVD risk factors in rural households in India.

Methods

We performed an open-label cluster-randomized trial in 28 villages in 3 states of India with the household as a unit of randomization. Households with individuals at intermediate to high CVD risk were randomized to intervention and control groups. In the intervention group, trained CHWs delivered risk-reduction advice and monitored risk factors during 6 hou

SUBMITTER: Joshi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6842688 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature