Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker Delivered Care Intervention for Hypertension Control in Uganda

"The multi-component intervention will be centered on monthly household visits by trained CHWs for a period of seven months in a rural setting in Nakaseke, Uganda, consisting of the following; (1) blood pressure and sugar monitoring; (2) BMI monitoring; (3) cardiovascular disease risk assessment; (4) Using checklists to guide monitoring and referral to clinics; (5) healthy lifestyle counselling and education. During home visits, CHWs will remind patients of follow-up visits. We will measure blood pressure at baseline and 3-monthly for the entire cohort. We will conduct individual-level mixed effects analyses of study data, adjusting for time and clustering by patient and community.~We will conduct an interim analysis at 3 months to assess differences between groups. If a statistically significant difference is detected the intervention will be applied across the remaining clusters"