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Effectiveness and Acceptability of a Mobile Phone Text Messaging Intervention to Improve Blood Pressure Control (TEXT4BP) among Patients with Hypertension in Nepal: A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial Cover

Effectiveness and Acceptability of a Mobile Phone Text Messaging Intervention to Improve Blood Pressure Control (TEXT4BP) among Patients with Hypertension in Nepal: A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial

Global Heart
Volume 17 (2022): Issue 1
By: Buna Bhandari,  Padmanesan Narasimhan,  Rohan Jayasuriya,  Abhinav Vaidya and  Aletta E. Schutte  
Open Access
|Feb 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1103 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
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Language: English
Submitted on: Nov 27, 2021
Accepted on: Jan 4, 2022
Published on: Feb 23, 2022
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Mobile health,
SMS,
Adherence,
mHealth,
Blood pressure

© 2022 Buna Bhandari, Padmanesan Narasimhan, Rohan Jayasuriya, Abhinav Vaidya, Aletta E. Schutte, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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