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Adapting established hypertension self-management interventions to enhance cultural relevance for urban African Americans required substantial time and resources prior to testing in a future trial.
Adapting hypertension self-management interventions for urban African Americans requires substantial time and resources, with the resulting interventions planned for testing in a future RCT.
Highlights resource barriers to equitable hypertension interventions; leaves open efficacy of adapted programs in upcoming RCTs.
African Americans suffer disproportionately poor hypertension control despite the availability of efficacious interventions. Using principles of community-based participatory research and implementation science, we adapted established hypertension self-management interventions to enhance interventions' cultural relevance and potential for sustained effectiveness among urban African Americans. We obtained input from patients and their family members, their health care providers, and community members. The process required substantial time and resources, and the adapted interventions will be tested in a randomized controlled trial.
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Ameling et al. (2014) studied Hypertension. Adapted hypertension self-management interventions was evaluated. Adapting established hypertension self-management interventions to enhance cultural relevance for urban African Americans required substantial time and resources prior to testing in a future trial.