The effectiveness of the health promotion program for patients with hypertension in hypertension clinic Damnoen Saduak Hospital, Ratchaburi Province

Abstract

        The purpose of this quasi-experimental research was to compare knowledge, health - promoting behaviors, and blood pressure among patients with hypertension before and after participating  in health promotion program. The samples were 30 hypertensive patients in hypertension clinical, Damnoen Saduak Hospital. The research instrument was divided into 3 parts; health promotion program for hypertensive patients, knowledge about hypertension questionnaire and health-promoting behaviors questionnaire. The reliability approached by  KR 20 and Cronbach's Alpha Coefficient were 0.77 and 0.86, respectively. The data were then analyzed for finding descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation, whereas t-test was approached for reference statistics.

              The results revealed as follows;

                   `1.  As for comparing mean scores on knowledge, it was found that after participating the program, patients had statistically significantly higher mean scorer than before participating in the program (M=32.60, SD= 2.85; M=20.60, SD= 7.14; p< 0.01), respectively. 

                 2.  As for comparing the mean score on health promotion behaviors, it was found that after participating in the program, the patients had statistically significantly higher scores on health promoting behaviors than before participating in the program (M=4.14, SD=0.50; M=3.76, SD =0.53; p< 0.01)

        The research results shows that individualized health promotion programs can enhance health-promoting behaviors among patients and should be completely developed and further researched for the benefit of practice.