Management of Hypertension Utilizing Trained Community Health Worker in Rural Municipalities of Nepal

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

1,428

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 27, 2021

Primary Completion Date

April 20, 2022

Study Completion Date

July 20, 2022

Conditions
Hypertension,Essential
Interventions
DRUG

Amlodipine

The facility-based community health worker will receive protocol-driven training to initiate amlodipine for hypertensive patients. These patients will receive lifestyle counseling by Female Community Health Volunteer through home visits (5 times \[including baseline and end of the study\] in the active municipality and 3 times \[including baseline and end of the study\] in the control municipality).

BEHAVIORAL

Lifestyle counselling

Female Community Health Volunteer will provide lifestyle counseling at the participant's home

Trial Locations (2)

33700

Rupa Rural Municipality, Kāski̇̄

33800

Biruwa Rural Municipality, Syāṅjā

Sponsors

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Nepal Development Society

UNKNOWN

lead

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

OTHER