Improving Cardiovascular Health Among African-Americans Through Mobile Health: the FAITH! App Pilot Study

LaPrincess C Brewer; Sharonne N Hayes; Sarah M Jenkins; Kandace A Lackore; Carmen Radecki Breitkopf; Lisa A Cooper; Christi A Patten

doi:10.1007/s11606-019-04936-5

Improving Cardiovascular Health Among African-Americans Through Mobile Health: the FAITH! App Pilot Study

J Gen Intern Med. 2019 Aug;34(8):1376-1378. doi: 10.1007/s11606-019-04936-5.

Authors

LaPrincess C Brewer¹, Sharonne N Hayes², Sarah M Jenkins³, Kandace A Lackore³, Carmen Radecki Breitkopf⁴, Lisa A Cooper^{5

6}, Christi A Patten⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA. brewer.laprincess@mayo.edu.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA.
³ Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
⁴ Division of Health Care Policy and Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁶ Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: cardiovascular disease; community-based interventions; community-based participatory research (CBPR); disparities; health promotion; minority health.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Black or African American* / education
Blood Glucose / metabolism
Blood Pressure / physiology
Cardiovascular Diseases / blood
Cardiovascular Diseases / epidemiology*
Cardiovascular Diseases / prevention & control*
Female
Health Promotion / methods*
Health Status Disparities*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pilot Projects
Religion
Telemedicine / methods*

Substances

Blood Glucose

Publication types

MeSH terms

Substances

Grants and funding