Health Coaches for Hypertension Control

Health Coaches for Hypertension Control is a workshop designed to help people with hypertension manage, lower, and prevent future complications from high blood pressure. Trained health coaches provide eight 90-minute sessions addressing self-management, nutrition, and physical activity. Lifestyle changes are recommended, including weight reduction by following the DASH eating plan and increasing physical activity to thirty minutes most days of the week. Topics covered are communication, nutrition, physical activity, tobacco use cessation, behavior change, stress, medication, and community resources.