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African American Veterans Storytelling A Multisite Randomized Trial To Improve Hypertension, Thomas K. Houston, Gemmae M. Fix, Stephanie L. Shimada, Judith Long, Howard S. Gordon, Charlene Pope, Julie E. Volkman, Jeroan Allison, Kathryn Delaughter, Michelle Orner, Barbara G. Bokhour
African American Veterans Storytelling A Multisite Randomized Trial To Improve Hypertension, Thomas K. Houston, Gemmae M. Fix, Stephanie L. Shimada, Judith Long, Howard S. Gordon, Charlene Pope, Julie E. Volkman, Jeroan Allison, Kathryn Delaughter, Michelle Orner, Barbara G. Bokhour
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Background: Disparities in hypertension control persist for African American Veterans.
Objective: To enhance cultural relevance of hypertension control self-management education, in a multisite, stratified randomized trial, we tested an interactive Veteran-to-Veteran storytelling digital video disk (DVD) intervention created with Veteran partners, versus an education-only DVD comparison.
Methods: At 3 VA facilities, African American Veterans with uncontrolled hypertension were randomized to storytelling DVD intervention or didactic comparison DVD and followed for 6 months. We hypothesized that follow-up blood pressure (BP) would be lower among Veterans in the intervention group.
Results: African American Veterans (N=619) were 92% male, 39% over age 65, …