Engagement in Self-measured Blood Pressure Monitoring Among Medically Underresourced Participants (the Reach Out Trial): Digital Framework Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile health (mHealth) interventions serve as a scalable opportunity to engage people with hypertension in self-measured blood pressure (SMBP) monitoring, an evidence-based approach to lowering blood pressure (BP) and improving BP control. Reach Out is an SMS text messaging-based SMBP mHealth trial that aims to reduce BP among hypertensive patients recruited from the emergency department of a safety net hospital in a low-income, predominately Black city.

Objective

As the benefits of Reach Out are predicated on participants' engagement with the intervention, we sought to understand participants' determinants of engagement via prompted SMBP with personalized feedback (SMBP+feedback).

Methods

We conducted semistructured telephone interviews based on the digit

SUBMITTER: Hellem AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10131992 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature