Effectiveness of Health Education Program for Hypertension Prevention Among Risk Group in Ban Maekhamtalad Maekham Sub-District Maechan District Chiangrai Province

Abstract

This research objective to comparison of knowledge, perception and behavior of risk groups that participated in the health education program between the experimental group and the control group and within the experimental group before and after the experiment. Prevention Among Risk Group in Ban Maekhamtalad Maekham Sub- District Meacham District Chinghai Province. Is a quasi – experimental research. Two-groups pretest Design with Comparison group use sampling methods for specific consideration from a person. People by studying samples from 48 people with 24 people and experimental group control group 24 people. The experimental group received a health education program. Contains process activities, groups, lectures, demonstrations, disease prevention guides. Collect data using questionnaire. Data analysis uses basic statistics values is the number, percent, Average, Standard deviation for comparison, the difference of the mean of the experimental group. Before and after the trial use statistics Paired t-test and compare the differences of the mean between experimental and control groups use statistics Independent t-test. For comparison at level 0.05. The results : The experimental group had a higher score of knowledge perception and practice on hypertension. Higher than before and control group significantly (p-value<0.001).