bp_ghana {bp}R Documentation

Task Shifting and Blood Pressure Control in Ghana Data

Description

The bp_ghana data set includes 757 subjects across 32 community health centers who were partitioned into intervention groups according to a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial with 389 in the health insurance coverage (HIC) group and 368 in another group consisting of a combination of HIC with a nurse-led task-shifting strategy for hypertension control (TASSH) (this group is denoted TASSH + HIC). This study was an effort to assess the comparative effectiveness of HIC alone versus the combination of TASSH + HIC on reducing systolic blood pressure among patients with uncontrolled hypertension in Ghana. Baseline blood pressure measurements and 12 month follow-up results were collected among subjects, 85% of whom had 12 month data present

Usage

bp_ghana

Format

A data frame containing 21 variables pertaining to blood pressure as follows:

ID

Subject ID

Time_Elapsed

How much time elapsed between readings: Baseline measurement, 6 month follow-up, 12 month follow-up

SBP

Systolic Blood Pressure

DBP

Diastolic Blood Pressure

Age

Age in Years

Gender

0 = Male
1 = Female

EducationLevel

Highest Degree Earned:

1 = No Schooling
2 = Primary Schooling (Grades 1 to 6)
3 = Junior Secondary Schooling (JSS) (Grades 7-8)
4 = Secondary School (Grades 9-11)
5 = Completed Secondary School
6 = Technical school certificate
7 = Some college but no degree
8 = Associate degree
9 = Graduate or Professional school (MD, JD, etc.)
999 = Not specified

EmploymentStatus

0 = Unemployed
1 = Employed

Literacy

0 = Illiterate
1 = Literate

Smoking

1 = Smoker
2 = Occasional
3 = Ex-Smoker
4 = Non-Smoker

Income

Income level expressed in home currency - Ghanaian cedi (GhC)

SiteNumber

Site Location in Ghana:

1 = Suntreso
2 = Ananekrom
3 = Manhiya
4 = Apatrapa
5 = Nkawie
6 = Afrancho
7 = Kumsai South
8 = Mampongteng
9 = Mampong
10 = Bomfa
11 = Ejura
12 = Kofiase
13 = Kokofu
14 = Asuofia
15 = Konongo
16 = Subirisu
17 = Effiduase
18 = Abuakwa
19 = Tafo
20 = KMA
21 = Methodist
22 = Kenyasi
23 = Asonamaso
24 = Juansa
25 = Juaso
26 = Sekyredumase
27 = Nkenkaasu
28 = Berekese
29 = Bekwai
30 = Dwease
31 = Kuntanese
32 = Foase

CVRisk

Cardiovascular Risk Assessment (%) at Baseline:

1) <10%
2) 10-20%
3) 20-30%
4) 30 to 40%
999= Missing Data

BMI

Body Mass Index

BMIClassification

Classification of BMI:

1 = Underweight (<18.5 kg/m^2)
2 = Normal (18.5 to 24.9 kg/m^2)
3 = Overweight (25.0 to 29.9 kg/m^2)
4 = Obese (>30 kg/m^2)

PhysicalActivity

All activity in weighted MET minutes (per week) at Baseline

TrtorCtrl

0 = Control
1 = Treatment

RuralUrban

0 = Rural
1 = Urban

DoctorsAvailable

# of doctors on staff

NursesAvailable

# of nurses on staff

Patientsannually

# of patients seen annually

Details

(Ogedegbe G, Plange-Rhule J, Gyamfi J, Chaplin W, Ntim M, Apusiga K, Iwelunmor J, Awudzi KY, Quakyi KN, Mogavero JN, Khurshid K, Tayo B, Cooper R. 2019).

Licensed under a CC-0 1.0 (Creative Commons) Universal Public Domain Dedication License

Source

Original Paper: doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002561

Data: doi: 10.5061/dryad.16c9m51


[Package bp version 2.1.0 Index]