Incorporating African American Veterans' Success Stories for Hypertension Management: Developing a Behavioral Support Texting Protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Peer narratives engage listeners through personally relevant content and have been shown to promote lifestyle change and effective self-management among patients with hypertension. Incorporating key quotations from these stories into follow-up text messages is a novel way to continue the conversation, providing reinforcement of health behaviors in the patients' daily lives.

Objective

In our previous work, we developed and tested videos in which African American Veterans shared stories of challenges and success strategies related to hypertension self-management. This study aims to describe our process for developing a text-messaging protocol intended for use after viewing videos that incorporate the voices of these Veterans.

Methods

We used a multistep proce

SUBMITTER: DeLaughter KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8686408 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature