Trial reportInternational health2025
Impact of home-based follow-up care on hypertension control among patients attending Thika Level Five Hospital, Kiambu County, Kenya: A randomized control study.
Trial report in International health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Comment on: 'Impact of home-based follow-up care on hypertension control among patients attending Thika Level Five Hospital, Kiambu County, Kenya: a randomized controlled study'.International health · 2026Article
- Comment on: "Impact of home-based follow-up care on hypertension control among patients attending Thika Level Five Hospital, Kiambu County, Kenya: a randomized controlled study": reply.International health · 2026Article
- Associations between social determinants and poor hypertension treatment adherence among middle-aged and older people in rural China: a hospital-based case‒control study.BMC public health · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundHypertension contributes to a large burden of cardiovascular diseases, with a higher prevalence in low- and middle-income countries. Hypertension management is mainly hospital-based, but it faces low retention rates in facilities, non-adherence and subsequent suboptimal blood pressure (BP) control. This study aimed to implement home-based follow-up care and assess its impact on controlling BP.
methodsAn open-label randomized controlled study was conducted on 200 participants with uncontrolled BP selected using a systematic random sampling technique and randomly assigned into home-based follow-up care (intervention group) and hospital-based follow-up care (control group). Data were collected using a structured questionnaire containing the 8-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale and Hypertension Self-Care Activity Level Effect (H-SCALE). Data were analysed using SPSS version 29.0.
resultsHypertension control was 52.0% and 92.2% in the control and intervention groups, respectively. In the interventional group, drug adherence increased from 38.2% to 94.1% compared with a reduction in the control group from 45.9% to 33.7%. Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet adherence rose from 2.9% to 76.5% compared with a control group from 1% to 2%.
conclusionsHome-based care follow-up has a significant impact on the control of hypertension.
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