Understanding Family-Level Effects of Adult Chronic Disease Management Programs: Perceived Influences of Behavior Change on Adolescent Family Members' Health Behaviors Among Low-Income African Americans With Uncontrolled Hypertensions
Background: Despite improvements in cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and treatment, low-income African Americans experience disparities in CVD-related morbidity and mortality. Childhood obesity disparities and poor diet and physical activity behaviors contribute to CVD disparities throughout...
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| author | Rachel L. J. Thornton Rachel L. J. Thornton Rachel L. J. Thornton Rachel L. J. Thornton Tracy J. Yang Patti L. Ephraim Patti L. Ephraim L. Ebony Boulware Lisa A. Cooper Lisa A. Cooper Lisa A. Cooper Lisa A. Cooper |
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| description | Background: Despite improvements in cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and treatment, low-income African Americans experience disparities in CVD-related morbidity and mortality. Childhood obesity disparities and poor diet and physical activity behaviors contribute to CVD disparities throughout the life course. Given the potential for intergenerational transmission of CVD risk, it is important to determine whether adult disease management interventions could be modified to achieve family-level benefits and improve primary prevention among high-risk youth.Objective: To explore mechanisms by which African-American adults' (referred to as index patients) participation in a hypertension disease management trial influences adolescent family members' (referred to as adolescents) lifestyle behaviors.Design/Methods: The study recruited index patients from the Achieving blood pressure Control Together (ACT) study who reported living with an adolescent ages 12–17 years old. Index patients and adolescents were recruited for in-depth interviews and were asked about any family-level changes to diet and physical activity behaviors during or after participation in the ACT study. If family-level changes were described, index patients and adolescents were asked whether role modeling, changes in the home food environment, meal preparation, and family functioning contributed to these changes. These mechanisms were hypothesize to be important based on existing research suggesting that parental involvement in childhood obesity interventions influences child and adolescent weight status. Thematic content analysis of transcribed interviews identified both a priori and emergent themes.Results: Eleven index patients and their adolescents participated in in-depth interviews. Index patients and adolescents both described changes to the home food environment and meal preparation. Role modeling was salient to index patients, particularly regarding healthy eating behaviors. Changes in family functioning due to study participation were not endorsed by index patients or adolescents. Emergent themes included adolescent care-taking of index patients and varying perceptions by index patients of their influence on adolescents' health behaviors.Conclusions: Our findings suggest that disease management interventions directed at high-risk adult populations may influence adolescent family members' health behaviors. We find support for the hypotheses that role modeling and changes to the home food environment are mechanisms by which family-level health behavior change occurs. Adolescents' roles as caretakers for index patients emerged as another potential mechanism. Future research should explore these mechanisms and ways to leverage disease management to support both adult and adolescent health behavior change. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-db06f8e20a0b41788a679e6b155e5d0c2022-12-22T02:47:28ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Pediatrics2296-23602019-01-01610.3389/fped.2018.00386422136Understanding Family-Level Effects of Adult Chronic Disease Management Programs: Perceived Influences of Behavior Change on Adolescent Family Members' Health Behaviors Among Low-Income African Americans With Uncontrolled HypertensionsRachel L. J. Thornton0Rachel L. J. Thornton1Rachel L. J. Thornton2Rachel L. J. Thornton3Tracy J. Yang4Patti L. Ephraim5Patti L. Ephraim6L. Ebony Boulware7Lisa A. Cooper8Lisa A. Cooper9Lisa A. Cooper10Lisa A. Cooper11Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United StatesJohns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Baltimore, MD, United StatesDepartment of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United StatesWelch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Baltimore, MD, United StatesNew York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United StatesDepartment of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United StatesDivision of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United StatesDivision of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United StatesJohns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Baltimore, MD, United StatesDepartment of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United StatesWelch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Baltimore, MD, United StatesDivision of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United StatesBackground: Despite improvements in cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and treatment, low-income African Americans experience disparities in CVD-related morbidity and mortality. Childhood obesity disparities and poor diet and physical activity behaviors contribute to CVD disparities throughout the life course. Given the potential for intergenerational transmission of CVD risk, it is important to determine whether adult disease management interventions could be modified to achieve family-level benefits and improve primary prevention among high-risk youth.Objective: To explore mechanisms by which African-American adults' (referred to as index patients) participation in a hypertension disease management trial influences adolescent family members' (referred to as adolescents) lifestyle behaviors.Design/Methods: The study recruited index patients from the Achieving blood pressure Control Together (ACT) study who reported living with an adolescent ages 12–17 years old. Index patients and adolescents were recruited for in-depth interviews and were asked about any family-level changes to diet and physical activity behaviors during or after participation in the ACT study. If family-level changes were described, index patients and adolescents were asked whether role modeling, changes in the home food environment, meal preparation, and family functioning contributed to these changes. These mechanisms were hypothesize to be important based on existing research suggesting that parental involvement in childhood obesity interventions influences child and adolescent weight status. Thematic content analysis of transcribed interviews identified both a priori and emergent themes.Results: Eleven index patients and their adolescents participated in in-depth interviews. Index patients and adolescents both described changes to the home food environment and meal preparation. Role modeling was salient to index patients, particularly regarding healthy eating behaviors. Changes in family functioning due to study participation were not endorsed by index patients or adolescents. Emergent themes included adolescent care-taking of index patients and varying perceptions by index patients of their influence on adolescents' health behaviors.Conclusions: Our findings suggest that disease management interventions directed at high-risk adult populations may influence adolescent family members' health behaviors. We find support for the hypotheses that role modeling and changes to the home food environment are mechanisms by which family-level health behavior change occurs. Adolescents' roles as caretakers for index patients emerged as another potential mechanism. Future research should explore these mechanisms and ways to leverage disease management to support both adult and adolescent health behavior change.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fped.2018.00386/fullcardiovascular diseasesfamily healthhypertensionhealth promotiondisease managementhealth disparities |
| spellingShingle | Rachel L. J. Thornton Rachel L. J. Thornton Rachel L. J. Thornton Rachel L. J. Thornton Tracy J. Yang Patti L. Ephraim Patti L. Ephraim L. Ebony Boulware Lisa A. Cooper Lisa A. Cooper Lisa A. Cooper Lisa A. Cooper Understanding Family-Level Effects of Adult Chronic Disease Management Programs: Perceived Influences of Behavior Change on Adolescent Family Members' Health Behaviors Among Low-Income African Americans With Uncontrolled Hypertensions Frontiers in Pediatrics cardiovascular diseases family health hypertension health promotion disease management health disparities |
| title | Understanding Family-Level Effects of Adult Chronic Disease Management Programs: Perceived Influences of Behavior Change on Adolescent Family Members' Health Behaviors Among Low-Income African Americans With Uncontrolled Hypertensions |
| title_full | Understanding Family-Level Effects of Adult Chronic Disease Management Programs: Perceived Influences of Behavior Change on Adolescent Family Members' Health Behaviors Among Low-Income African Americans With Uncontrolled Hypertensions |
| title_fullStr | Understanding Family-Level Effects of Adult Chronic Disease Management Programs: Perceived Influences of Behavior Change on Adolescent Family Members' Health Behaviors Among Low-Income African Americans With Uncontrolled Hypertensions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding Family-Level Effects of Adult Chronic Disease Management Programs: Perceived Influences of Behavior Change on Adolescent Family Members' Health Behaviors Among Low-Income African Americans With Uncontrolled Hypertensions |
| title_short | Understanding Family-Level Effects of Adult Chronic Disease Management Programs: Perceived Influences of Behavior Change on Adolescent Family Members' Health Behaviors Among Low-Income African Americans With Uncontrolled Hypertensions |
| title_sort | understanding family level effects of adult chronic disease management programs perceived influences of behavior change on adolescent family members health behaviors among low income african americans with uncontrolled hypertensions |
| topic | cardiovascular diseases family health hypertension health promotion disease management health disparities |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fped.2018.00386/full |
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