Project code (team no) | Funding agency | Target countries/regions | Target behaviour change | Intervention | Intervention function | Policy categories |
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Interventions involving mobile health technologies | ||||||
IND 7 | NHMRC | India-Andhra Pradesh | Improved BP control amongst people at high cardiovascular disease risk | A primary health care mHealth system for use by NPHWs and government primary health care centre doctors | • Education | • Guidelines |
• Persuasion | • Communication/ marketing (partially) | |||||
• Incentivisation | • Service provision (partially) | |||||
• Training | ||||||
• Enablement | ||||||
• Environmental restructuring | ||||||
TZA 3/CAN 3 | CIHR, GCC, IDRC, and CSN | Tanzania/Canada | Improved HT control through improved screening, lifestyle changes and medication use | Primary health care intervention involving linkage of primary health care workers and patients via a short message system (SMS) mHealth system, combined with contextually and culturally specific training programmes for health care workers in the two settings | • Education | • Guidelines |
• Training | • Environment/social planning | |||||
• Persuasion (partially) | • Communication/marketing | |||||
• Incentivisation (partially) | • Legislation (partially) | |||||
• Enablement (partially) | • Service provision (partially) | |||||
• Environmental restructuring (partially) | • Regulation (partially) | |||||
COL/MYS 2 | CIHR, GCC, IDRC, and CSN | Colombia/Malaysia | Improved BP control through improved screening, lifestyle changes and medication use | Primary health care programme for cardiovascular disease risk assessment, treatment and control involving: (1) simplified algorithms implemented by NPHWs and supported by e-health technologies; (2) initiation of evidence based medications; (3) treatment supports to optimise long-term medication and lifestyle adherence; and (4) macro-policy initiatives to support sustainability | • Education | • Guidelines |
• Persuasion | • Environment/social planning | |||||
• Training | ||||||
• Enablement | • Communication/marketing | |||||
• Service provision | ||||||
• Legislation (partially) | ||||||
KEN 13 | NIH (NHLBI) | Kenya | Linking and retaining hypertensive individuals to hypertensive care | A behavioural communication strategy and use of mHealth tools to improve linkage into health care and optimal BP control | • Education | • Guidelines |
• Persuasion | • Communication/marketing | |||||
• Training | • Service provision | |||||
• Enablement | ||||||
• Environmental restructuring | ||||||
• Incentivisation (partially) | ||||||
ARG 14 | NIH (NHLBI) | Argentina | Improved BP control amongst hypertensive subjects via improved medication adherence, home monitoring and a lifestyle modification programme | Primary health care intervention comprising provider education, a home-based lifestyle and BP monitoring consultation for patients and their families delivered by NPHWs and a mHealth intervention | • Education | • Guidelines |
• Persuasion | • Service provision | |||||
• Incentivisation | ||||||
• Training | ||||||
• Enablement | ||||||
• Environmental restructuring | ||||||
Innovative health care delivery strategies | ||||||
NGA 15 | NIH (NINDS) | Nigeria | Empowering patients who have had a stroke to improve their adherence to medicines and recommended health care visits | A new model of care comprising a stroke patient report card, SMS messages from care providers, and in-clinic educational video sessions | • Education | • Guidelines |
• Persuasion | • Communication/marketing | |||||
ZAF 1 | CIHR, GCC, IDRC, and CSN | South Africa—Western Cape/Uganda | Improved control of BP amongst people with HIV | N/A (Observational study) | N/A | N/A |
UGA 1 | ||||||
ZAF 5 | MRC | South Africa-Mpumalanga | Changing clinic systems and behaviour of health professionals in the clinic | Primary health care intervention in which a clinic based lay health worker will support outreach teams to improve access and quality of care for patients with elevated BP | • Education | • Service provision |
• Training | ||||||
• Enablement | ||||||
• Environmental restructuring | ||||||
• Persuasion (partially) | ||||||
IND 6 | NHMRC | India-3 rural regions | Improved control of BP amongst rural-dwelling people with hypertension | Peer group based support incorporating monitoring and education, and a non-physician health care facilitator. Health system and workforce strengthening. | • Education | • Guidelines |
• Persuasion | • Environment/social planning | |||||
• Incentivisation | • Communication/marketing | |||||
• Training | • Service provision | |||||
• Enablement | • Guidelines (partially) | |||||
• Modelling | ||||||
• Environmental | ||||||
• restructuring | ||||||
IND 8 | NHMRC | India/Sri Lanka-fixed dose combination BP-lowering pill | Improve prescriber and patient uptake of BP-lowering medication | Outpatient clinic trial of a low dose 3-in-1 low cost BP-lowering pill compared with usual treatment regimes. 700 patients will be randomised to treatment with a triple low dose BP-lowering medication or routine management of hypertension according to usual practice. Primary outcome is proportion reaching target at 6 months. | • Enablement | |
• Environmental restructuring | ||||||
GHA 12 | NIH (NHLBI) | Ghana | Improved BP control amongst patients with uncontrolled hypertension who receive care in community-based primary care practices | Comparative effectiveness study of an World Health Organisation package of interventions involving task-shifting to Community Health Nurses versus provision of health insurance coverage | • Education | • Guidelines |
• Persuasion | • Environment/social planning | |||||
• Incentivisation | • Communication/marketing | |||||
• Training | • Service provision | |||||
• Enablement | • Regulation | |||||
• Modelling | ||||||
• Environmental restructuring | ||||||
Salt reduction strategies | ||||||
IND 9 | NHMRC | India—national | Reduction in dietary intake of salt and reduction of salt levels in foods and meals through the development of local and national policies for salt reduction | N/A (Observational study) | N/A | • Guidelines |
• Communication/marketing | ||||||
FJI/ WSM 10 | NHMRC | Pacific Islands | Reduce salt use | Multi-pronged cross sectoral programmes targeting community-wide salt reduction | • Education | • Guidelines |
• Training | • Communication/marketing | |||||
• Environmental restructuring | • Regulation | |||||
CHN 4 | MRC | China | Lowered salt intake in children and their families | A school-based education programme to reduce salt intake in children and their families | • Restrictions | • Guidelines |
• Education | • Environment/social planning | |||||
• Persuasion | • Communication /marketing | |||||
• Incentivisation | • Service provision (partially) | |||||
• Training | ||||||
• Enablement | ||||||
• Modelling | ||||||
• Environmental restructuring | ||||||
PER 11 | NIH (NHLBI) | Peru | Replacing common salt for a potassium-enriched salt (substitute); incorporating and consuming the salt substitute in the usual diet | A community-wide salt substitution programme involving community, community kitchens, and food suppliers | • Education | • Communication/marketing |
• Persuasion | ||||||
• Incentivisation | ||||||
• Training | ||||||
• Enablement | ||||||
• Modelling | ||||||
• Environmental restructuring | ||||||
• Restrictions (partially) |