Community Health Extension Worker-Led Health Coaching & Home Blood Pressure Monitoring
Hypertension is the leading cause of global cardiovascular (CVD) mortality and morbidity. About two-thirds of the 31.1% adults living with hypertension globally are in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). This protocol aims to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of community-health extension worker-led health coaching and home blood pressure (BP) monitoring on hypertension control among high-risk adults with uncontrolled BP compared with propensity-matched controls. This study will be embedded within the Hypertension Treatment in Nigeria (HTN) Program and includes a concurrent evaluation of effectiveness and implementation to inform regional, national, and global scaling.
Meet the PI
Namratha Kandula, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine) and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
n-kandula@northwestern.edu
Publication
- Baldridge AS, Aluka-Omitiran K, Orji IA, Shedul GL, Ojo TM, Eze H, Shedul G, Ugwuneji EN, Egenti NB, Okoli RCB, Ale BM, Nwankwo A, Osagie S, Ye J, Chopra A, Sanuade OA, Tripathi P, Kandula NR, Hirschhorn LR, Huffman MD, Ojji DB. Hypertension Treatment in Nigeria (HTN) Program: rationale and design for a type 2 hybrid, effectiveness, and implementation interrupted time series trial. Implement Sci Commun. 2022 Aug 2;3(1):84. doi: 10.1186/s43058-022-00328-9. PMID: 35918703; PMCID: PMC9344662.