Services delivered by faith-community nurses to individuals with elevated blood pressure.
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Monay, Victoria; Mangione, Carol M; Sorrell-Thompson, Alice
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Our study describes the services faith-community nurses provide to a community-dwelling sample of patients with elevated blood pressure.The faith-community nurses completed a survey describing services provided to study participants at each patient encounter. We describe the type of contact and the frequency and types of services provided to these patients. From October 2006 to October 2007, we conducted a partnered study with a faith-community nursing program and enrolled 100 adults with elevated blood pressure from church health fairs.Patient demographics and faith-community nurse services provided.Data from 63 of 108 (58%) visits to faith-community nurses made by 33 participants were collected from surveys completed by the nurses. The majority of the participants were female (64%), Latino (61%), with an average age of 59 (SD=11) years and incomes below US