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Study NCT ID:
NCT02549495
Status:
COMPLETED
Last Update Posted:
2025-12-22
First Post:
2015-04-17
Is NOT Gene Therapy:
True
Has Adverse Events:
True
Brief Title:
Impact of Community Health Workers on Adherence to Therapy for Non-Communicable Chronic Disease in Chiapas, Mexico
Sponsor:
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Organization:
Study Overview
Official Title:
Evaluation of a Community Health Worker Intervention on Adherence to Therapy for Non-Communicable Chronic Disease in Chiapas, Mexico
Status:
COMPLETED
Status Verified Date:
2025-12
Last Known Status:
None
Delayed Posting:
No
If Stopped, Why?:
Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access:
False
If Expanded Access, NCT#:
N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status:
N/A
Acronym:
None
Brief Summary:
This study evaluates the effectiveness of community health workers when added to routine care for patients with diabetes and high blood pressure in rural clinics in Chiapas, Mexico. It does so by recording information on adherence to therapy, blood pressure and hemoglobin A1c while a non-governmental organization working in Mexico trains and introduces a community health worker program.
Detailed Description:
Compañeros en Salud (CES), an affiliate project of Partners in Health, has been working in the rural Sierra of Chiapas, Mexico since February 2012. CES works in partnership with the local Ministry of Health to rehabilitate and staff existing government primary care clinics. Each community's clinic is staffed by one CES project physician year-round. CES activities span the range of allopathic medicine, but the focus of the project is in the prevention, detection, diagnosis and management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes and hypertension. CES currently operates in several rural communities with catchment areas of approximately 1,500 - 2,500 people. Routine care for NCDs is based on national guidelines and consists of monthly in-clinic visits by primary care physicians.
Over 9 months in 2014 and again over 6 months in 2016, CES will introduce a community health worker program called "Acompañantes" to its project communities to augment care of patients with NCDs. Acompañantes are lay health workers and members of the community who bridge the gap between project clinics and patients, improving understanding of NCDs, their treatments, and adherence to therapy. The introduction of Acompañantes to communities is planned in a once-every-three-months fashion, the most rapid roll-out logistically feasible for CES. The investigators' project will document their experience over this time, and for one year after introduction of the Acompañantes program to all seven study communities, by documenting adherence to therapy, hemoglobin a1c, and blood pressure at every-three month intervals over this time frame.
Over 9 months in 2014 and again over 6 months in 2016, CES will introduce a community health worker program called "Acompañantes" to its project communities to augment care of patients with NCDs. Acompañantes are lay health workers and members of the community who bridge the gap between project clinics and patients, improving understanding of NCDs, their treatments, and adherence to therapy. The introduction of Acompañantes to communities is planned in a once-every-three-months fashion, the most rapid roll-out logistically feasible for CES. The investigators' project will document their experience over this time, and for one year after introduction of the Acompañantes program to all seven study communities, by documenting adherence to therapy, hemoglobin a1c, and blood pressure at every-three month intervals over this time frame.
Study Oversight
Has Oversight DMC:
False
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?:
None
Is a FDA Regulated Device?:
None
Is an Unapproved Device?:
None
Is a PPSD?:
None
Is a US Export?:
None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?: