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| Title |
A cluster-randomized trial of task shifting and blood pressure control in Ghana: study protocol
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Implementation Science, June 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1748-5908-9-73 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gbenga Ogedegbe, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Joyce Gyamfi, William Chaplin, Michael Ntim, Kingsley Apusiga, Kiran Khurshid, Richard Cooper |
| Abstract |
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are experiencing an epidemic of cardiovascular disease (CVD) propelled by rapidly increasing rates of hypertension. Barriers to hypertension control in SSA include poor access to care and high out-of-pocket costs. Although SSA bears 24% of the global disease burden, it has only 3% of the global health workforce. Given such limited resources, cost-effective strategies, such as task shifting, are needed to mitigate the rising CVD epidemic in SSA. Ghana, a country in SSA with an established community health worker program integrated within a national health insurance scheme provides an ideal platform to evaluate implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) task-shifting strategy. This study will evaluate the comparative effectiveness of the implementation of the WHO Package targeted at CV risk assessment versus provision of health insurance coverage, on blood pressure (BP) reduction. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 4 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 354 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 1% |
| Ghana | 1 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 346 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 56 | 16% |
| Researcher | 40 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 33 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 31 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 24 | 7% |
| Other | 68 | 19% |
| Unknown | 102 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 90 | 25% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 49 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 29 | 8% |
| Psychology | 14 | 4% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 9 | 3% |
| Other | 53 | 15% |
| Unknown | 110 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 July 2014.
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#12,900,070
of 22,757,090 outputs
Outputs from Implementation Science
#1,334
of 1,721 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#105,714
of 228,693 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Implementation Science
#29
of 38 outputs
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