Incorporating African American Veterans’ Success Stories for Hypertension Management: Developing a Behavioral Support Texting Protocol

Kathryn L DeLaughter   ¹ , MA ;   Gemmae M Fix   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Sarah E McDannold   ¹ , MPH ;   Charlene Pope   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Barbara G Bokhour   ^{1, 5} , PhD ;   Stephanie L Shimada   ^{1, 5, 6} , PhD ;   Rodney Calloway   ¹ , BSc ;   Howard S Gordon   ^{7, 8, 9} , MD ;   Judith A Long   ^{10, 11} , MD ;   Danielle A Miano   ¹ , BA ;   Sarah L Cutrona   ^{1, 5} , MPH, MD

¹ Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, VA Bedford Healthcare System, Bedford, MA, United States

² Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States

³ Nursing, Ralph H Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC, United States

⁴ College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States

⁵ Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States

⁶ Department of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

⁷ Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center and VA Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Healthcare, Chicago, IL, United States

⁸ Section of Academic Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

⁹ Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

¹⁰ Corporal Michael J Crescenz VA Medical Center, VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP), Philadelphia, PA, United States

¹¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States