Counseling African Americans to Control Hypertension: cluster-randomized clinical trial main effects.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Data are limited on the implementation of evidence-based multilevel interventions targeted at blood pressure (BP) control in hypertensive blacks who receive care in low-resource primary care practices.

Methods and results

Counseling African Americans to Control Hypertension is a cluster-randomized clinical trial in which 30 community health centers were randomly assigned to the intervention condition (IC) or usual care (UC). Patients at the IC sites received patient education, home BP monitoring, and monthly lifestyle counseling, whereas physicians attended monthly hypertension case rounds and received feedback on their patients' home BP readings and chart audits. Patients and physicians at the UC sites received printed patient education material and hypertension

SUBMITTER: Ogedegbe G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4565195 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature