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Traditionally, village doctors play an important role in infectious disease control and delivering essential health services to rural residents. We aim to test the effectiveness of a village doctor-led multifaceted intervention compared with usual care on blood pressure (BP) control and cardiovascular disease (CVD) among rural residents with hypertension in China.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title><jats:p>In the China Rural Hypertension Control Project (CRHCP), a cluster randomized trial, 163 villages were randomly assigned to the village doctor-led intervention and 163 villages to control. A total of 33,995 individuals aged \u226540 years with an untreated BP \u2265140\/90 mm Hg or treated BP \u2265130\/80 mm Hg or with an untreated BP \u2265130\/80 mm Hg and a history of clinical CVD were recruited into the study. The village doctor-led multifaceted intervention is designed to overcome barriers at the healthcare system, provider, patient, and community levels. Village doctors receive training on standard BP measurement, protocol-based hypertension treatment, and health coaching. They also receive technical support and supervision from hypertension specialists\/primary care physicians and performance-based financial incentives. Study participants receive health coaching on home BP monitoring, lifestyle changes, and adherence to medications. The primary outcome is BP control (&amp;lt;130\/80 mm Hg) at 18 months in phase 1 and CVD events over 36 months in phase 2.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title><jats:p>The CRHCP will provide critically important data on the effectiveness, implementation, and sustainability of a hypertension control strategy in rural China for reducing the BP-related CVD burden.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>CLINICAL TRIALS REGISTRATION<\/jats:title><jats:p>Trial Number NCT03527719.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/ajh\/hpab038","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,11]],"date-time":"2021-02-11T21:06:01Z","timestamp":1613077561000},"page":"831-839","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["Rationale and Design of a Cluster Randomized Trial of a Village Doctor-Led Intervention on Hypertension Control in 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