Key result
Community-based education and screening detects hypertension in ~52% of elderly participants.
Why the study?
Hypertension remains a major health threat in the elderly and is often undetected until complications arise, especially in remote mountainous areas with limited healthcare access.
Community-based health education combined with blood pressure screening is an effective qualitative strategy to increase awareness and identify undetected hypertension among the elderly in remote areas with limited healthcare access.
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Supports community outreach for remote elderly hypertension detection; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Irawan et al. (2026) studied Hypertension (n=25). Community-based health education on hypertension was evaluated on Qualitative engagement and hypertension screening. An interactive community health education session successfully engaged 25 elderly participants, while concurrent screening identified hypertension in 13 individuals (52%).
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