Leveraging Delivery of Blood Pressure Control Interventions among Low-income African American Adults: Opportunities to Increase Social Support and Produce Family-level Behavior Change | Zendy

Tracy Yang | Zendy; Lisa A. Cooper | Zendy; L. Ebony Boulware | Zendy; Rachel L. J. Thornton | Zendy

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Leveraging Delivery of Blood Pressure Control Interventions among Low-income African American Adults: Opportunities to Increase Social Support and Produce Family-level Behavior Change

Author(s) -

Tracy Yang,

Lisa A. Cooper,

L. Ebony Boulware,

Rachel L. J. Thornton

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

ethnicity and disease

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.767

H-Index - 67

eISSN - 1945-0826

pISSN - 1049-510X

DOI - 10.18865/ed.29.4.549

Subject(s) - psychological intervention , thematic analysis , medicine , gerontology , social support , behavior change , intervention (counseling) , psychology , qualitative research , nursing , social psychology , pathology , social science , sociology

Few family-oriented cardiovascular risk reduction interventions exist that leverage the home environment to produce health behavior change among multiple family members. We identified opportunities to adapt disease self-management interventions included in a blood pressure control comparative effectiveness trial for hypertensive African American adults to address family-level factors.

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