Community Health Workers Equipped with an mHealth Application Can Accurately Diagnose Hypertension in Rural Guatemala
In this study based in rural Guatemala, CHWs using a mHealth clinical decision support application were found to screen adult patients for hypertension with similar accuracy to a physician. This approach could be adapted to other low-resource settings to reduce the burden of undiagnosed and untreated hypertension.
Authors
- Rafael Tun
- Elizabeth White
- Taryn M. Valley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2866-9518)
- Valerie Aguilar
- Julie Cornfield (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0318-9614)
- Kaitlin Tetreault (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3370-359X)
- Guanhua Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9314-2037)
- Sean Duffy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1993-7835)
- Do Dang
- Juan Aguirre Villalobos
- Alejandro Chavez
- Yoselin Letona
- Alvaro Bermudez-Cañete
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- University of Maryland Medical Center (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Centro de Estudios y Experimentación de Obras Públicas (ES)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Universidade Federal de Sergipe (BR)
- Innovative Research Group (Canada) (CA)
- University of Wisconsin Health (US)
- Wisconsin Division of Public Health (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Global Heart
- Published
- 2025-04-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1423
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.55