Key result
A school-based hypertension awareness program is currently being evaluated in an ongoing pilot crossover trial of 60 students and their parents, with no efficacy results available yet.
Why the study?
Many hypertensive individuals remain untreated, uncontrolled, or unaware of their condition, prompting the need for innovative community-level strategies to improve hypertension awareness and control.
Does a school-based hypertension education and home blood pressure monitoring program improve child and parent knowledge and parent intent to seek care for high blood pressure?
Population
60 fifth grade students and their parents/guardians
Comparison
School-based hypertension education and home blood pressure monitoring program vs crossover control
Design
Pilot crossover trial
Authors
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This paper describes the rationale and design of a pilot school-based intervention to improve community hypertension awareness, with results pending.
RCT (n=60)
No
Does a school-based hypertension education and home blood pressure monitoring program improve child and parent knowledge and parent intent to seek care for high blood pressure?
This paper describes the rationale and design of a pilot school-based intervention to improve community hypertension awareness, with results pending.
Anthony J. Viera (2019) conducted an RCT in Hypertension (n=60). School-based hypertension education and home blood pressure monitoring was evaluated on Child and parent/guardian knowledge about high blood pressure. A school-based hypertension awareness program is currently being evaluated in an ongoing pilot crossover trial of 60 students and their parents, with no efficacy results available yet.
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