The Results of the Health Promotion Program for Controlling a Hypertension Pressure Patients in Krasang Hospital in Burirum’s Krasang District

Abstract

The research aimed to study the results of the health promotion program for controlling a Hypertension pressure patients and to compare the Hypertension between the group inside the program and the group outside the program. The samples were derived by a simple random sampling. They were 70 outpatients seeking a medical treatment at Krasang hospital. The experimental group attended the health promotion program for 12 weeks. The research instruments were the questionnaire with a confidence value between 0.89 and 0.93, the health promotion program consisting of the activities imparting knowledge on Hypertension and on perception of severity of a disease, expectation in the patients’ own ability and detoxification. Statistics used were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and t-test. The research findings were as follows. The Hypertension pressure patients attending the program in the study had a higher level of knowledge on the disease than before and they also had a higher level of perception of the disease than those not attending the program. The patients attending the program had a higher level of perception of severity of a disease, risks, their own expectation, and expectation for the results. Their level of perception was higher than that of those who did not attend the program. The patients who attended the program had more appropriate diet control, exercise, emotional management, and detoxification than those who did not. The patients who attended the program had a lower level of high blood pressure than those who did not.