Patient Barriers and Facilitators to Ambulatory and Home Blood Pressure Monitoring: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Guidelines recommend that patients with newly elevated office blood pressure undergo ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) or home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) to rule-out white coat hypertension before being diagnosed with hypertension. We explored patients' perspectives of the barriers and facilitators to undergoing ABPM or HBPM.

Methods

Focus groups were conducted with twenty English- and Spanish-speaking individuals from underserved communities in New York City. Two researchers analyzed transcripts using a conventional content analysis to identify barriers and facilitators to participation in ABPM and HBPM.

Results

Participants described favorable attitudes toward testing including readily understanding white coat hypertension, agreeing with t

SUBMITTER: Carter EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7190918 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature