‘They should walk with you’: the perspectives of African Americans living with hypertension and their family members on disease self-management

Arts & Humanities

• Self-management 100%
• Hypertension 97%
• African Americans 67%
• Family-centered 22%
• Dyads 14%
• Risk Factors 12%
• Health Disparities 11%
• Family Strategies 11%
• Blood Pressure 10%
• African-American Culture 9%
• Grounded Theory 9%
• Morbidity 8%
• Christian Churches 7%
• Social Systems 7%
• Diet 6%
• Focus Groups 6%
• Racism 6%
• Mortality 6%
• Prayer 6%
• Ethnic Groups 5%
• Monitoring 5%
• Testing 4%
• Health 4%
• Communication 4%

Social Sciences

• hypertension 98%
• family member 65%
• American 61%
• management 37%
• dyad 13%
• blood pressure 9%
• health behavior 7%
• social system 6%
• church 6%
• grounded theory 6%
• health 6%
• racism 6%
• mortality 6%
• ethnic group 5%
• monitoring 5%
• Group 4%
• communication 3%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Disease Management 78%
• African Americans 73%
• Hypertension 51%
• Racism 10%
• Grounded Theory 8%
• Religion 8%
• Family Health 8%
• Physiologic Monitoring 7%
• Health Behavior 7%
• Focus Groups 6%
• Communication 5%
• Diet 4%
• Blood Pressure 4%
• Morbidity 4%
• Mortality 3%
• Health 3%