A Comparison of Self-Care Behaviors Between Hypertension Patients with Controlled and Uncontrolled Blood Pressure Level

Abstract

Objective: To examine and compare self-care behaviors of hypertensive patients with controllable and those with uncontrollable blood pressure level.
Setting: Hypertension Clinic, Pakham Hospital.
Study design: Descriptive Study.
Subjects: One hundred forty hypertensive patients at Pakham Hospital.
Methods: The collection data was a questionnaire and analyzing data were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and independent t-test was employed for testing hypotheses.
Result: The hypertensive patients with controllable blood pressure level showed more self-care behaviors as a whole and in 5 aspects : provision of care associated with eliminative processes and excrements ; prevention of hazards to life, functioning, and well-being ; reline tension and overcome deleterious effect of illness being aware of and attending to the effects and results of pathologic conditions and states, including effects on development ; and an effective carrying out medically prescribed diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative measures directed to preventing specific types of pathology than those hypertensive patients with uncontrollable blood pressure level significance (p < 0.05).
Conclusion: Health care personel should promote and social support to enhance self-care behavior in hypertensive patients.
Key words: Self-care behavior for hypertensive patients, Hypertension Patients with Controlled Blood Pressure Level, Hypertension Patients with Uncontrolled Blood Pressure Level.