Phone-based Intervention Under Nurse Guidance After Stroke 2

Inclusion Criteria

• •age ≥ 18 years (stroke is commoner above this age cut-off)
• •male or females (sex is a biologic variable of interest)
• •recent stroke (within one month of symptom onset)- stroke may be ischemic or hemorrhagic based on brain imaging or diagnosed clinically using the locally validated version of the 8-item questionnaire for verifying stroke free status (8-QVSFS) when neuroimaging is not feasible
• •uncontrolled HTN (SBP ≥ 140 mmHg at both the last clinical encounter post-stroke and the eligibility screening visit) - SBP is used as the selection variable since most African hypertensives \<60 years have systolic or combination systolic/ diastolic HTN and for most patients, controlling SBP also results in DBP control
• •patients or family carers should own a basic mobile phone that can receive text/audio messages.