Does a multicomponent intervention centered on proactive home visits reduce blood pressure compared to usual care in adults with hypertension in rural South Asia?
A multicomponent intervention utilizing trained community health workers for proactive home visits effectively lowers blood pressure in rural South Asian populations compared to usual care.
In rural communities in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, a multicomponent intervention that was centered on proactive home visits by trained government community health workers who were linked with existing public health care infrastructure led to a greater reduction in blood pressure than usual care among adults with hypertension. (Funded by the Joint Global Health Trials scheme; COBRA-BPS ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02657746.).
Jafar et al. (2020) studied this question.