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WHO HEARTS evaluation in Bangladesh

A study in rural Bangladesh that compared 7 primary healthcare clinics using the HEARTS hypertension control package with 7 matched clinics giving usual hypertension care. Clinics were matched and not randomly assigned. 3935 adults with uncontrolled hypertension took part. At 6 months, blood pressure had fallen further and more people had their blood pressure under control in the HEARTS clinics, and fewer clinic visits were missed.

Also called HEARTS Package Evaluation Trial in Bangladesh

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Overview

Design
Matched-pair cluster quasi-experimental trial: 7 clinics implementing the HEARTS package and 7 matched usual care clinics. The registry records allocation as non-randomized and masking as single.
Phase
Not applicable
Enrolled
  • 3,935 participants (enrolled count) (HEARTS Package Evaluation Trial in Bangladesh, retrieved )
Sponsor
Not recorded
Funder
Not recorded
Registry
  • NCT NCT04992039
Started
(actual) (HEARTS Package Evaluation Trial in Bangladesh, retrieved )
Primary completion
(actual) (HEARTS Package Evaluation Trial in Bangladesh, retrieved )
Completion
(actual) (HEARTS Package Evaluation Trial in Bangladesh, retrieved )
Countries
Bangladesh (HEARTS Package Evaluation Trial in Bangladesh, retrieved )
Care setting
Fourteen Upazila Health Complexes, which are primary healthcare facilities, in rural Bangladesh (paper). (Evaluation of the World Health Organization-HEARTS hypertension control package in Bangladesh: a quasi-experimental trial, retrieved )
Registry status
  • “COMPLETED” (U.S. National Library of Medicine (ClinicalTrials.gov), retrieved )

Technical summary

Matched-pair cluster quasi-experimental trial (NCT04992039), registry allocation non-randomized, masking single, primary purpose health services research, phase not applicable. Lead sponsor National Heart Foundation of Bangladesh on the registry record. Registry dates: start 2021-10-09, primary completion 2021-12-31, completion 2022-08-12; the primary completion date is earlier than the 6-month follow-up the paper describes, and the two are not reconciled here. The paper (Heart, 2024) is open access under CC BY 4.0. Numbers are on the claim.

Arms

  • HEARTS clinics

    Intervention WHO HEARTS technical package

    Clinics implementing all components of the HEARTS technical package (registry).

  • Usual care clinics

    Intervention None named

    Matched clinics continuing usual hypertension care (abstract); the registry says these participants did not receive the total HEARTS package.

Findings

No findings are published for this study.

Record details

Record id
cardio:hearts-bangladesh
Content hash
769dbd75ca0ffba6e0c1e28c6afb48bfaa96d51da97e2cd22aa27831cc574930