Promoting cardiovascular health and wellness among African-Americans: Community participatory approach to design an innovative mobile-health intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite improvements in mortality rates over the past several decades, cardiovascular (CV) disease remains the leading cause of death for African-Americans (AAs). Innovative approaches through mobile health (mHealth) interventions have the potential to support lifestyle change for CV disease prevention among AAs. We aimed to translate a behavioral theory-informed, evidence-based, face-to-face health education program into an mHealth lifestyle intervention for AAs. We describe the design and development of a culturally relevant, CV health and wellness digital application (app) and pilot testing using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach with AA churches.

Methods

This mixed methods study used a 4-phase iterative development process for interventi

SUBMITTER: Brewer LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6701808 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature