Abstract: Objective To investigate the awareness and behavior model for home blood pressure monitoring（HBPM）among outpatient doctors in cities. Methods Convenience sampling was used to collect cross-sectional questionnaires of outpatient doctors from 23 hospitals or community-based clinics in Beijing,Hangzhou and Guangzhou from May to August 2013. The questionnaires included age,gender and other basic information and involved the value and significance of HBPM,the cut-points of systolic and diastolic pressure for diagnosis on hypertension,attitude on significance of morning or nocturnal blood pressure values,and time,frequency and methods of measuring. Results A total of 204 questionnaires were delivered during this survey,194 subjects responded（response rate was 95.1%）.39（20.1%）were male,155（79.9%）were female. Average age was 39.7years old.102（52.6%）doctors were from tertiary-level hospitals,10（5.1%）from secondary-level hospital and 82（42.3%）from primarylevel hospitals or community-based health care centers. 49.5%（96/194）doctors regarded the equal importance of HBPM and office blood pressure measurement（OBPM）or ambulatory blood pressure monitoring,and 31.4%（61/194）considered HBPM more important;81.4%（158/194）doctors considered the equal importance of HBPM during daytime and night.95.9%（186/194）doctors acknowledged HBPM would help to improve the awareness of hypertension,82.5%（160/194）believed HBPM could raise the accuracy of diagnosis,83.5%（162/194）believed HBPM might help to improve accuracy of prediction of prognosis. Only 34.0%（66/194）doctors could correctly answer the cut-points of systolic blood pressure/diastolic blood pressure（≥135/85 mm Hg）for diagnosis of hypertension by HBPM,and 51.0%（99/194）choose≥140/90 mm Hg（cut-points of OBPM）. 85.6%（166/194）doctors recommended HBPM as patients visit,85.6%（166/194）prefer arm-style electronic device,94.8%（184/194）suggested measuring at least once daily,74.2%（144/194）advised measuring after getting up and before sleeping,43.3%（84/194）proposed measuring twice and 53.6%（104/194）proposed measuring three times each time.32.5%（56/194）doctors advised to record the average value of the second and third readings and 40.7%（79/194）doctors recommended to record the mean of all readings. Conclusion The behavior models on HBPM recommendations are accordance to the guidelines and consensus statements,but the level of awareness are still low among outpatient doctors in cities,indicating a compelling need for education and training to improve the awareness and behaviors on blood pressure measurement and monitoring.