The Wald Outreach Center will partner with Medicine for the Greater Good (MGG) to implement this pilot project called Wald Outreach for Wellness (WOW), a blood pressure outreach wellness intervention in a retail setting.
WOW aims to provide community members with a digital blood pressure monitor, health education, and health care navigation as practical strategies to improve community members' management of pre-hypertension, and to reduce associated burdens and risks related to hypertension health disparities. This approach to reaching populations who use retail settings has the potential to implement a health promotion and wellness strategy aimed at populations with increased risk for hypertension related health disparities. The outreach strategy is aimed at reaching community members where community members gather for health care, provide the community members with practical, low-cost strategies for promoting health and wellness, increase community members' knowledge in hypertension management, help the community members navigate health care options and get the community members engaged in a medical home thereby reducing the burdens of hypertension health disparities. This research is important to continue to assess the best ways to reach and reduce hypertension health disparities in underserved communities with limited access to health care.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Health education and coaching, health care navigation,
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Change in actions to control hypertension as assessed by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Module 7
Change in yes/no answers assessed by Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Module 7. 10 questions graded by yes/no response.
Time frame: Assessed at baseline, 6 weeks and 12 weeks
Change in blood pressure
Change in blood pressure (BP) measured in mmHg.
Time frame: Assessed at baseline and every 2 weeks, up to 3 months
Change in usage of BP monitor
Change in usage of blood pressure monitor assessed by number of BP readings done by participants.
Time frame: Assessed at baseline and every 2 weeks, up to 3 months
Change in knowledge of the signs and symptoms of a heart attack and stroke as assessed by BRFSS Module 8
Change in knowledge (yes/no responses) of signs and symptoms of stroke/heart attack as assessed by BRFSS Module 8. 13 Questions graded by yes/no.
Time frame: Assessed at baseline, 6 weeks and 12 weeks
Change in engagement with healthcare provider as assessed by BRFSS Section 3
Change in engagement with healthcare provider/medical home as assessed by BRFSS Section 3. 3 questions graded by yes/no.
Time frame: Assessed at baseline, 6 weeks and 12 weeks
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