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Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Participants in the intervention group will receive a phone call 2 days prior to the scheduled follow-up appointment. Content of the call will include 1) time and place of the scheduled appoi
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, have their own phone, 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