Text Messaging and Video Stories to Support Hypertension Self-Management in Black Veterans: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Hypertension treatment advances have resulted in improvements in blood pressure control and self-management. Yet, disparities persist for Black veterans.

Objective

To examine the impact of a narrative-informed texting intervention with educational content and bidirectional text messaging on blood pressure and hypertension self-management.

Design, setting, and participants

This nonblinded, 2-arm randomized clinical trial recruited participants from March 2021 to July 2022 at 2 Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers (1 in Chicago, Illinois, and 1 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); follow-up was completed in May 2023. Participants were Black veterans with at least 1 medication for hypertension, with oversampling of female veterans. Participants were randomly assig

SUBMITTER: Cutrona SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12590299 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature