ArticlePilot and feasibility studies2017
Culturally adaptive storytelling intervention versus didactic intervention to improve hypertension control in Vietnam: a cluster-randomized controlled feasibility trial.
Article in Pilot and feasibility studies, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. It is linked to trial NCT02483780 (Culturally Adaptive Storytelling Method to Improve Hypertension Control in Vietnam -"We Talk About Our Hypertension"), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Culturally Adaptive Storytelling Method to Improve Hypertension Control in Vietnam -"We Talk About Our Hypertension": a Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Access to hypertension care and services in primary health-care settings in Vietnam: a systematic narrative review of existing literature.Global health action · 2019Pooled it
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- Erratum issued
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12 authors.
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Abstract
backgroundVietnam is experiencing an epidemiologic transition with an increased prevalence of non-communicable diseases. Novel, large-scale, effective, and sustainable interventions to control hypertension in Vietnam are needed. We report the results of a cluster-randomized feasibility trial at 3 months follow-up conducted in Hung Yen province, Vietnam, designed to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of two community-based interventions to improve hypertension control: a "storytelling" intervention, "We Talk about Our Hypertension," and a didactic intervention.
methodsThe storytelling intervention included stories about strategies for coping with hypertension, with patients speaking in their own words, and didactic content about the importance of healthy lifestyle behaviors including salt reduction and exercise. The didactic intervention included only didactic content. The storytelling intervention was delivered by two DVDs at 3-month intervals; the didactic intervention included only one installment. The trial was conducted in four communes, equally randomized to the two interventions.
resultsThe mean age of the 160 study patients was 66 years, and 54% were men. Most participants described both interventions as understandable, informative, and motivational. Between baseline and 3 months, mean systolic blood pressure declined by 8.2 mmHg (95% CI 4.1-12.2) in the storytelling group and by 5.5 mmHg (95% CI 1.4-9.5) in the didactic group. The storytelling group also reported a significant increase in hypertension medication adherence.
conclusionsBoth interventions were well accepted in several rural communities and were shown to be potentially effective in lowering blood pressure. A large-scale randomized trial is needed to compare the effectiveness of the two interventions in controlling hypertension.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02483780.
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