Effect of a Multicomponent Intervention Delivered on a Web-Based Platform on Hypertension Control: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The prevalence of hypertension is high and still increasing across the world, while the control rate remains low in many countries. Emerging technology, such as telemedicine, may offer additional support to change the unsatisfactory situation.

Objective

To establish a multicomponent intervention delivered on a web-based telemedicine platform and oriented with the Chinese hypertension management guidelines and to evaluate the effect of the intervention on blood pressure (BP) control for patients with hypertension.

Design, setting, and participants

This cluster randomized clinical trial of a hypertension management program was conducted at 66 community health centers in China from October 1, 2018, to May 31, 2020, with a 12-month follow-up. Patients with hype

SUBMITTER: Zhou H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9856259 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature