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Effectiveness of a community-based education and peer support led by women’s self-help groups in improving the control of hypertension in urban slums of Kerala, India: a cluster randomised controlled pragmatic trial

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  • Rakesh P Suseela Department of Community Medicine & Center for Public Health, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, IndiaDepartment of Global Health & Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Renjini Balakrishnan Ambika Department of Community Medicine & Center for Public Health, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sreelakshmi Mohandas Department of Community Medicine & Center for Public Health, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jaideep C Menon Department of Global Health & Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USADepartment of Preventive Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidhyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mathews Numpelil National Health Mission, Kochi, Kerala, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Beena K Vasudevan Department of Community Medicine & Center for Public Health, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rajani Ved Department of Global Health & Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USANational Health Systems Resource Centre, New Delhi, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Goodarz Danaei Department of Global Health & Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USADepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Donna Spiegelman Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Nutrition and Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USACentre for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Rakesh P Suseela; rakeshrenjini{at}gmail.com
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P Suseela R, Ambika RB, Mohandas S, et al
Effectiveness of a community-based education and peer support led by women’s self-help groups in improving the control of hypertension in urban slums of Kerala, India: a cluster randomised controlled pragmatic trial
BMJ Global Health 2022;7:e010296.

Publication history

  • Received August 1, 2022
  • Accepted October 23, 2022
  • First published November 16, 2022.
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December 28, 2023

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