Effectiveness of group counselling vs individual counselling as health education methods to reduce high blood pressure among patients with high blood pressure in rural areas.
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- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: I10- Essential (primary) hypertension
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2024/05/067241
- Lead Sponsor
- one
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Open to Recruitment
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
1. Consenting adults (age = 30 years) attending the primary clinics diagnosed with hypertension within one year from the first day of data collection.
2. The individual should have resided in the same locality in the preceding six months and is expected to stay in the same locality for the next six months from the day of baseline-data collection.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Hypertensives aged less than 30 years of age.
2. Hypertensives diagnosed more than one year ago.
3. Hypertensives with end organ damage at the time of baseline-data collection
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Blood pressure <br/ ><br>Height, weight, BMI (Body Mass Index)- WHO-Asian classification <br/ ><br>Knowledge score <br/ ><br>Minutes of Physical activity per day <br/ ><br>Practice related to diet, alcohol consumption, tobacco use <br/ ><br>Timepoint: Baseline, 1st month from baseline, 3rd month from baseline
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Height, weight, BMI (Body Mass Index)- WHO-Asian classification <br/ ><br>Minutes of Physical activity per day. <br/ ><br>Practice related to diet, alcohol consumption, tobacco use.Timepoint: Baseline, 1st month from baseline, 3rd month from baseline