Diet and lifestyle InterventionS through Anganwadi Workers and Accredited Social Health Activists (DISHA)

Conditions

None listed

Dimple Kondal, Panniyammakal Jeemon, Sathyaprakash Manimunda, Gitanjali Narayanan, Anil Jacob Purty et al. (93 authors)

Journal of the American Heart Association2022-03-019 citations

10.1161/jaha.121.023526

Chronic disease concordance within Indian households: A cross-sectional study

Shivani A. Patel, Preet K. Dhillon, Dimple Kondal, Panniyammakal Jeemon, Kashvi Kahol et al. (13 authors)

PLoS Medicine2017-09-2965 citations

10.1371/journal.pmed.1002395

Task shifting of frontline community health workers for cardiovascular risk reduction: design and rationale of a cluster randomised controlled trial (DISHA study) in India.

Jeemon P, Narayanan G, Kondal D, Kahol K, Bharadwaj A, Purty A, Negi P, Ladhani S, Sanghvi J, Singh K, Kapoor D, Sobti N, Lall D, Manimunda S, Dwivedi S, Toteja G, Prabhakaran D, DISHA Study Investigators.

2016-03-1522 citations

10.1186/s12889-016-2891-6

Interventions

Intervention1: DISHA (Diet and lifestyle InterventionS for Hypertension risk-reduction through Anganwadi Workers and accredited social health activists) Intervention : This is a diet and lifestyle int

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Any individual, irrespective of gender, who is more than 18 years of age, and permanently resides in the household will be approached to participate in this study for cardiovascular risk-factor assessment.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: This study proposes to study adults in the community to assess cardiovascular risk-factor prevalence in the community, and excludes adults below the age of 18 years. Additional exclusions are: • Pregnant women • Bed-ridden individuals • Persons who are unable to comprehend the interview questionnaire (Reasons for exclusion will be documented)

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The primary outcome will be difference between the changes in population level blood pressure between intervention and control clusters. Timepoint: 18 months	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
-Operational feasibility of integrating NCD risk reduction in community health programs through existing community level healthcare volunteers such as ASHA or equivalent. -Usefulness of trained healthcare workers to affect changes in dietary fat, fibre and salt, tobacco and alcohol consumption and increasing physical activity. -Efficacy of the IEC intervention to evaluate changes in lipid levels and glycemia. Timepoint: 18 months	—

Measure

Time frame

-Operational feasibility of integrating NCD risk reduction in community health programs through existing community level healthcare volunteers such as ASHA or equivalent. -Usefulness of trained healthcare workers to affect changes in dietary fat, fibre and salt, tobacco and alcohol consumption and increasing physical activity. -Efficacy of the IEC intervention to evaluate changes in lipid levels and glycemia. Timepoint: 18 months

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Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactNidhi Sobti

Centre for Chronic Disease Control

dprabhakaran@ccdcindia.org011-43421900

Outcome results