E-counseling as an emerging preventive strategy for hypertension

Abstract

Current evidence supports further development of preventive e-counseling programs for hypertension. A pressing challenge for investigators is to specify key evidence-based components of e-counseling that are essential to the core protocol. In order to achieve this goal, it will be necessary to ensure that e-counseling programs are also clinically organized, in order to guide patients through the process of initiating and sustaining therapeutic behavior change.

Hypertension in Blacks

“…This can include telephone-delivered hypertension management programs 76, 77 in conjunction with HBPM, or ABPM and/or mobile phone text messaging to support medication adherence. 78, 79 Smartphone technology can also be used to facilitate data collection, including ecological momentary assessments among JHS participants between study visits and deliver or re-emphasize healthcare education 80 and lifestyle interventions. 73, 81 …”