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Symptomology of Elevated Blood Pressure in Black Women with Hypertension
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 28, Number 1, February 2017
- pp. 58-62
- 10.1353/hpu.2017.0007
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Understanding factors that influence hypertension self-management may improve blood pressure control in Black women; however, little is known about Black women’s perceptions of symptoms associated with hypertension. In this study, using the revised version of the Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R), we examined Black women’s perceptions of symptoms that they associate with hypertension. While over half (52.5%) reported no symptoms of high blood pressure, 41.3% of the women reported one to six symptoms they attributed to high blood pressure. This study has the potential to increase clinicians’ understanding of patients’ perceptions of the symptomology of hypertension.