Effectiveness of community-based health education and home support program to reduce blood pressure among patients with uncontrolled hypertension in Nepal: A cluster-randomized trial

• Mahesh Kumar Khanal ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: drmkkhanal@gmail.com

  Affiliation Provincial Ayurveda Hospital, Ministry of Health and Population, Lumbini Province, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5324-2802

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• Pratiksha Bhandari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rapti Life Care Hospital Pvt. Lt. Tulsipur, Dang, Nepal

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• Raja Ram Dhungana,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

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• Pratik Bhandari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of SEBE, Deakin University, Warun Ponds, VIC, Australia

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• Lal B. Rawal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, College of Science and Sustainability, Central Queensland University, Sydney Campus, Australia, Physical Activity Research Group, Appleton Institute, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia, Translational Health Research Institute (THRI), Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia

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• Yadav Gurung,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Child and Youth Health Research Center, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

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• K. N. Paudel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Province Hospital, Ministry of Social Development, Karnali Province, Surkhet, Nepal

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• Amit Singh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Province Hospital, Ministry of Social Development, Karnali Province, Surkhet, Nepal

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• Surya Devkota,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Centre, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal

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• Barbora de Courten

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

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