On November 27, 2020, the journal Trials (Impact Factor 2.0) published the scientific article titled "Conquering Hypertension in Vietnam - solutions at grassroots level: study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial".
This is a scientific product of a collaborative healthcare project between the Strategic Research Institute of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, the University of Massachusetts (UMASS), and hypertension specialists in Vietnam. Among the Vietnamese scientists participating in this research project is Dr. Le Tuan Thanh, MD, PhD, Director of the Cardiovascular Excellence Center Project, Vinmec Health System.
The scientific research project successfully registered the intervention process for a clinical trial at the grassroots level for 680 hypertension patients in 16 communes (8 intervention communes and 8 control communes).
The comprehensive intervention solutions were divided into two levels:
- The first level consists of basic solutions applied to all patients within the national hypertension prevention program.
- The second level includes interventions, such as: actively improve the quality of healthcare personnel through training, supervision, and support; educate patients to self-monitor their blood pressure at home (providing automatic blood pressure monitors); and use "video storytelling" to educate hypertension patients through their own stories.
This model functions as an intervention package that includes enhancing the capacity of healthcare advisors and caregivers, guiding self-monitoring of blood pressure to increase patient autonomy, and establishing a virtual hypertension patient club through shared videos by the patients themselves.
Read the full scientific article HERE: Conquering hypertension in Vietnam—solutions at grassroots level: study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial