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The effect of youths as change agents on cardiovascular disease risk factors among adult neighbours: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Sri Lanka

BACKGROUND: Mobilising non-professional health workers has been successful in improving community health, but the effectiveness of an education program targeting youths in a community-based approach remains unclear. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of an intervention with yo...

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Autores principales:	Chandraratne, Nadeeka, Yamaguchi, Miwa, Indrawansa, Susantha, Gunawardena, Nalika, Kuwahara, Keisuke, Islam, Zobida, Kawasaki, Yohei, Mizoue, Tetsuya, Samarasinghe, Diyanath
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2019
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6613264/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31286931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7142-1

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