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

Panniyammakal Jeemon,Gitanjali Narayanan,Dimple Kondal,Kashvi Kahol,Ashok Kumar Bharadwaj,Anil J Purty,Prakash Chand Negi,Sulaiman Ladhani,Jyoti Sanghvi,Kuldeep Singh,Deksha Kapoor,Nidhi Sobti,Dorothy Lall,Sathyaprakash Manimunda,Supriya Dwivedi,Gurudyal Toteja,Dorairaj Prabhakaran

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

2016

Panniyammakal Jeemon
Gitanjali Narayanan
Dimple Kondal
Kashvi Kahol
Ashok Kumar Bharadwaj
Anil J Purty
Prakash Chand Negi
Sulaiman Ladhani
Jyoti Sanghvi
Kuldeep Singh
Deksha Kapoor
Nidhi Sobti
Dorothy Lall
Sathyaprakash Manimunda
Supriya Dwivedi
Gurudyal Toteja
Dorairaj Prabhakaran

Effective task-shifting interventions targeted at reducing the globalcardiovascular disease(CVD) epidemic in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are urgently needed.

Keywords:

Physical therapy
Community health
Medicine
Biostatistics
Psychological intervention
Cross-sectional study
Disease
Cluster randomised controlled trial
Public health
Epidemiology
Research design
Environmental health

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