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Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Participants in the intervention group will receive two WhatsApp messages - respectively 3 days and 1 day prior to the scheduled follow-up appointment at 6 pm. Content of the message will inc
Sponsors
Technical University of Munich
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Participants need to be age > 18, have diagnosed or suspected hypertension as judged by their clinician, be able to speak and answer on their own, be able to read Punjabi, have their own phone with WhatsApp installed, have a clinician-requested follow-up visit for hypertension care that it at least 7 days after their initial visit, and consent to participate in our study.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Those who do not meet our inclusion criteria.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Whether trial participants came back for their follow-up appointment. We will assess this as a binary variable based on a patient visit database maintained by the study team. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Our secondary outcome is participants' false beliefs about when to seek hypertension care. We will measure this through a phone-based questionnaire and analyze the outcomes as a continuous score based on the number of questions for which the participants gave an incorrect answer. | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactNikkil Sudharsanan
Technical University of Munich
Outcome results
None listed