Effect of Self-care Promotion Program on Self-Efficacy for Stroke Prevention in Hypertension Patients

Abstract

Purpose: To examine the effectiveness of a self-care promoting program on Self-Efficacy for stroke prevention in hypertension patients.

Design: Quasi-experimental research of one-group pretest-posttest design

Method: Purposive sampling was used to select 30 hypertension patients from Outpatient Department, Hin Lap Tambon Health Promoting Hospital, Muaklek District, Saraburi Province. Participants received a self-care promotion program individually. The data were collected by using the self-efficacy for stroke prevention questionnaire. The content validity of the questionnaire was evaluated by experts, resulting in 0.96. The reliability of the questionnaire was examined using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, resulting in 0.81. Descriptive and paired sample T-Test statistics were used for the data analysis.

Results: Self-Efficacy for stroke prevention in hypertension patients after receiving a self-care promotion program was significantly higher than before entering the program (p<.05).

Conclusion: Self-care promotion can be used to enhance self-efficacy to prevent stroke and reduce the complications