Self – Care Behaviors and Blood Pressure Controlling Ability of Essential Hypertension Patients, Muang Potawas Primary Care Unit
Keywords:
Hypertension, Self – Care Behavior, Blood Pressure ControllingAbstract
This crossectional research was aimed to study the knowledge of hypertension, self – care behaviors, blood pressure controlling ability, and study the related to blood pressure controlling ability of hypertension patients, to refer from hospital/ treatment at Wat Photharwas Primary Care Unit, 194 hypertension patients were selected by simple random sampling. Data was collected by questionnaires and medical records, then analyzed by descriptive statistics and Chi-square test. The results were as followings.
64.9% of hypertension patients had good level of hypertension knowledge, followed by medium level and low level at 25.8 and 9.3%, respectively. They had medium level of self – care behaviors at 49.5% followed by good level and low level at 47.4 and 3.1%, respectively. 37.6% of them could control blood pressure. Self – care behaviors were significantly associated with blood pressure controlling ability (P-value < 0.05), but hypertension knowledge and received social support were not associated with blood pressure controlling ability. Hypertension patients had complications at 4.6%, which were kidney disease, heart disease and paresis at 3.6%, 0.5% and 0.5%, respectively.
According to the results, should promote to modify self-care behaviors of hypertension patients, In order to be able to control more blood pressure.
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