Date of Award
Spring 5-7-2022
Document Type
DNP Project
Project Team Faculty Member
Albertina Perez
Project Team Faculty Member
Annie Imboden
Keywords
Hypertension; blood pressure; home blood pressure; monitoring; coaching; education
Abstract
While nearly half of adults in the United States have hypertension, only about one quarter of those adults have adequately controlled hypertension. Providing a nurse-led coaching program in combination with home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) has been shown to improve blood pressure control. A rural family practice clinic in the Illinois Metro East area proposed a clinical trial to test a nurse-led coaching program in combination with home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) in decreasing blood pressure long-term. Both intervention and control groups received nurse-led hypertension coaching, while the intervention group also received a home blood pressure cuff. The results showed that a nurse-led coaching is effective in decreasing blood pressure. However, due to significant attrition, meaningful results could not be obtained regarding any additional benefits of adding HBPM to nurse-led coaching.
Recommended Citation
Joynt, Jordan and Watson, Alex, "Controlling Hypertension: A Self Blood Pressure Monitoring Program plus Health Coaching compared to Health Coaching Alone" (2022). Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects. 219.
https://spark.siue.edu/dnpprojects/219
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