J.M. Wu|Doyle M. Cummings|Quefeng Li|Alan L. Hinderliter|Hayden B. Bosworth|Jimmy Tillman|Darren A. DeWalt
The effect of a practice?based multicomponent intervention that includes health coaching on medication adherence and blood pressure control in rural primary care
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|East Carolina University|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|Duke University|Open Geospatial Consortium|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
low adherence antihypertensive medications contributes worse outcomes authors conducted secondary data analysis examine effects healthcoaching intervention medication adherence blood pressure bp explore whether changes medication adherence time associated changes bp longitudinally 477 patients hypertension data regarding medication adherence bp collected baseline 6 12 18 24 months intervention resulted increases medication adherence 575594 p 04 decreases diastolic bp 816761 mm hg p lt 001 time changes medication adherence associated reductions diastolic bp longitudinally p 047 patients low medication adherence baseline significantly greater improvement medication adherence bp time high medication adherence intervention demonstrated improvements medication adherence diastolic bp offers promise clinically applicable intervention rural primary care