NCT03164317

To Test the Effectiveness of a Trained Nurse Led, M-health Enabled Intervention to Control Blood Pressure in India

A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of M-health Enabled, Nurse Care Coordinator Led Intervention to Improve Management of Hypertension in India: m-Power Heart Project

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,872 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre for Chronic Disease Control, India · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the effect of a mobile health technology enabled trained nurse led intervention on control of blood pressure among patients with hypertension seeking care in the community health centres in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India. half the community health centres will receive the intervention and the other half will receive the routine care.

Detailed description

The burden of hypertension is very high in India but the control rates of hypertension are very low. One of the important reasons for this is the lack of awareness and the inability of the doctors working in busy out patient settings of public health facilities to care adequately for the patients. Hence there is a need for task shifting. In this trial a trained nurse care coordinator will be placed in the Community Health Centres (CHCs) and she will be provided with an Electronic Decision Support System (EDSS), in the form of an android application installed on a tablet, to treat hypertension. The trial will be carried out in twelve CHCs of Visakhapatnam district in southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

Conditions

• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Intervention	A trained nurse care coordinator enabled with a electronic decision support system placed at the CHCs to share the task of management of hypertension.
OTHER	Control	No NCC or EDSS will be placed in the CHCs. Doctors working in the CHCs will be given training (one day) on evidence based management of hypertension

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-20
• Primary completion: 2021-03-26
• Completion: 2021-03-31
• First posted: 2017-05-23
• Last updated: 2021-07-29

Locations

12 sites across 1 country: India