Services delivered by faith-community nurses to individuals with elevated blood pressure.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Our study describes the services faith-community nurses provide to a community-dwelling sample of patients with elevated blood pressure.

Design and sample

The faith-community nurses completed a survey describing services provided to study participants at each patient encounter. We describe the type of contact and the frequency and types of services provided to these patients. From October 2006 to October 2007, we conducted a partnered study with a faith-community nursing program and enrolled 100 adults with elevated blood pressure from church health fairs.

Measures

Patient demographics and faith-community nurse services provided.

Results

Data from 63 of 108 (58%) visits to faith-community nurses made by 33 participants were collected from surveys comp

SUBMITTER: Monay V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3363358 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature