A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Blood-Pressure Reduction in Black Barbershops.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Uncontrolled hypertension is a major problem among non-Hispanic black men, who are underrepresented in pharmacist intervention trials in traditional health care settings.

Methods

We enrolled a cohort of 319 black male patrons with systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or more from 52 black-owned barbershops (nontraditional health care setting) in a cluster-randomized trial in which barbershops were assigned to a pharmacist-led intervention (in which barbers encouraged meetings in barbershops with specialty-trained pharmacists who prescribed drug therapy under a collaborative practice agreement with the participants’ doctors) or to an active control approach (in which barbers encouraged lifestyle modification and doctor appointments). The primary outcome was reducti

SUBMITTER: Victor RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6018053 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature