Improving Blood Pressure Control Through the myBPmyLife mHealth Application

A Fitbit smartwatch and home blood pressure monitor will be mailed to participants (in both the experimental and control arms). Participants in the intervention arm then will set up and utilize the myBPmyLife app. This app includes push notifications to promote increased physical activity and improve low-sodium food choices, establish goal setting for weekly step count and low sodium food choices, and deliver feedback on achieving the goals using a dashboard visualization within the mobile application.

Participants will receive the myBPmyLife app, a smartwatch, and blood pressure cuff. The myBPmyLife app will not be fully activated (as they are in the control arm). They will be provided with the option of downloading and installing a mHealth app that is publicly available. In this arm they will also perform the blood pressure monitoring, but do not receive the intervention components through the myBPmyLife app.