Protocol for the implementation and evaluation of a community-based behavior change intervention to reduce dietary salt intake in India

Thout, Sudhir Raj (2023) Protocol for the implementation and evaluation of a community-based behavior change intervention to reduce dietary salt intake in India. Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 25 (2). pp. 175-182. ISSN 1524-6175

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Abstract

Excess dietary salt intake is well established as a leading cause of high blood pressure and associated cardiovascular disease, yet current salt intake in India is nearly 11 g per day, more than twice World Health Organization maximum recommended intake of 5 g per day. Although dietary survey data from India indicate that the main sources of dietary salt are salt added during cooking at home, and few salt reduction efforts have focused on interventions at the household level. As a result, there is little evidence of the effectiveness of behavior change programs to reduce salt intake at the household level. The study aims to develop and implement a community based behavioral change intervention to reduce salt intake delivered by front line community-based health volunteers; and evaluate the preliminary effectiveness, acceptability, and feasibility of delivering a salt reduction behavior change program and potential to support future scale-up. The study is a pre-post intervention design, and outcomes will be evaluated from a random sample of 1500 participants from 28 villages in two primary health centers in Siddipet, Telangana. Primary outcome is change in salt-related KAB (knowledge, attitude, and behavior) score, and secondary outcomes will be changes in salt intake measured by 24 h urinary sodium excretion and change in scores using the subscales of the COM-B (“capability”, “opportunity”, “motivation” and “behavior”) tool. Findings will be used to inform future public health policies to support implementation of scalable community-based interventions to reduce salt intake and control hypertension, the leading-cause of death in India.

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Article

Uncontrolled Keywords:

behavior change intervention; blood pressure; community-based health volunteers; dietary sodium reduction; home cooking; adult; Article; attitude to health; behavior change; blood pressure; community care; controlled study; cooking; female; home; human; human experiment; hypertension; implementation science; India; intervention study; male; motivation; normal human; preliminary data; program acceptability; program effectiveness; program feasibility; public health; public policy; random sample; saluresis; scale up; sodium restriction; adverse event; cardiovascular disease; diet; hypertension; salt intake; sodium chloride; Sodium-24; Cardiovascular Diseases; Diet; Humans; Hypertension; India; Sodium Chloride, Dietary

Subjects:

Others > Psychology
Social sciences

Divisions:

Department of Liberal Arts

Depositing User:

Mr Nigam Prasad Bisoyi

Date Deposited:

22 Aug 2023 05:39

Last Modified:

22 Aug 2023 05:39

URI:

http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/11598