Grantee Name
University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
Project Title
Providing Peer and Health Educator Support for Cardiovascular Health in African-American Primary Care Patients
Project Description
This project will evaluate practice-based peer and health educator support to reduce coronary artery disease (CAD) risk in African American primary care patients with poorly controlled hypertension (HTN).
The intervention alternates face-to-face meetings with a trained health educator with telephone counseling calls by a trained peer coach who has achieved CAD risk reduction goals as a patient in the same practice. The peer coach and health educator will address attitudes, social norms, and perceived behavioral control when helping the patient reduce CAD risk focusing on medication adherence, exercise, and diet. The intervention team will share a barriers list to monitor patient progress over time as part of a team-based care model. We will randomly assign 250 patients to the 6 month intervention or to control (brochures only). Outcomes include reduction in CAD risk, cost, and cost-efficiency of the intervention from a societal perspective.
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Principal Investigator:
Barbara J. Turner, MD, MSED
Team Members:
Mark Weiner, MD (Co-PI)
Susan Day, MD (Co-Investigator)
Kara Crews (Project Manager)
Lynette Ringgold (Project Coordinator)
Josh Benner, PharmD (Cost Effectiveness Consultant)
Christopher Hollenbeak, PhD (Biostatistician)
Claire Walters (Lead Peer Coach)
Patricia Jones (Practice Health Educator)
Monica Wilson (Practice Health Educator)
