Formative evaluation on cultural tailoring breathing awareness meditation smartphone apps to reduce stress and blood pressure
mHealth October 19, 2017 John C Sieverdes, Zachary W. Adams, Lynne S. Nemeth et al. 19 citations
BACKGROUND: Chronic stress is an independent risk factor for essential hypertension (EH), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and is sometimes confronted by mal-adaptive coping behaviors (e.g., stress eating, excessive alcohol consumption, etc.). Pre-essential hypertension (preEH) is the leading predictor of future EH status. Breathing awareness meditation (BAM) can result in clinically beneficial...