AsPIRE Full Intervention Paper (2018)

This randomized controlled trial evaluated a community health worker intervention to improve blood pressure (BP) among Filipino Americans with hypertension. The sample consisted of Filipino American adults diagnosed with hypertension. At 8-months, BP was controlled among a significantly greater percentage of treatment group participants, and the adjusted odds of controlled BP was significant in adjusted regression.

Citation: Ursua, R. A., Aguilar, D. E., Wyatt, L. C., Trinh-Shevrin, C., Gamboa, L., Valdellon, P., Perrella, E. G., Dimaporo, M. Z., Nur, P. Q., Tandon, S. D., & Islam, N. S. (2018). A community health worker intervention to improve blood pressure among Filipino Americans with hypertension: A randomized controlled trial. Preventive medicine reports, 11, 42–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2018.05.002