Evaluation of the Effect of Intensive Education for Self-Management on Patients with Hypertension in Nanhuaxi Street
Objective To evaluate the effect of intensive education on hypertension self-management. Methods By convenient sampling method, 121 hypertensive patients were selected as research subjects in Nanhuaxi Street, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, and randomly separated into test group(60 patients) and conventional group(61 patients). The conventional group was carried out mainly with health education in the collective way and follow-up blood pressure management. While the intensive education for self-management was added to the test group. Results After the intervention, the increase of hypertension knowledge correct rate(25.49%) in the test group was higher than that of the conventional group(11.11%), the increase of self-confidence scores was also higher than that of the conventional group, exercise rate(77.95%) in the test group was higher than that of the conventional group(59.06%), reasonable diet rate(90.00%) in the test group was higher than that of the conventional group(49.18%), the control rate of hypertension(93.33%) in the test group higher than that of the conventional group(80.33%), the differences were all statistically significant(P<0.05). Conclusion Comparing to the conventional group, adding the intensive education of hypertension self-management, could not only improve and consolidate hypertension knowledge and self efficacy, but also promote physical exercise, reasonable diet and the control rate of hypertension.
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