Bundling WhatsApp reminders with information targeting false beliefs to reduce missed follow-up visits for adults with hypertension: a randomized controlled trial in Punjab, India
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- I10Essential (primary) hypertension
- Registration Number
- DRKS00029712
- Lead Sponsor
- Technical University of Munich
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 800
Inclusion Criteria
Participants need to be age > 18, have diagnosed or suspected hypertension as judged by their clinician, be able to speak and answer on their own, be able to read Punjabi, have their own phone with WhatsApp installed, have a clinician-requested follow-up visit for hypertension care that it at least 7 days after their initial visit, and consent to participate in our study.
Exclusion Criteria
Those who do not meet our inclusion criteria.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Whether trial participants came back for their follow-up appointment. We will assess this as a binary variable based on a patient visit database maintained by the study team.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Our secondary outcome is participants' false beliefs about when to seek hypertension care. We will measure this through a phone-based questionnaire and analyze the outcomes as a continuous score based on the number of questions for which the participants gave an incorrect answer.