The Health Literacy on Decreasing Blood Pressure of Hypertensive Patients in Health Region 4 Saraburi
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The descriptive research purposed to study health literacy levels and examine the health literacy level on decreasing blood pressure of hypertensive patients in the health region 4 Saraburi. This study used the health literacy concept of Nutbeam. The study sample were 144 hypertensive patients in the health region 4 Saraburi by using multi-stage sampling procedure. The research instrument was the health literacy questionnaire that was tested for content validity by 5 expert panels. The reliability was .92. Data were analyzed by using frequency, mean, S.D., percentage, and simple linear regression procedure. Results showed that the majority of sample was female (68.10%), and male (31.90%). The majority range of age was 61-70 years (37.90%). Education was primary school (59.00%). Most of the marital status was marriage (53.50%). The majority of sample was not working (50.00%). The levels of health literacy were at the more level ( = 280.43, S.D.= 34.59). With respect to the aspect of health literacy, the most average score was decision skill domain ( = 60.40, S.D.= 9.34). The least average score of health literacy domain was media literacy (mean= 33.94, S.D.= 6.46). The health literacy levels were statistically significant on decreasing the systolic blood pressure levels of hypertensive patients at .01 (R= .18, R2 = .03, Adjusted R2 = .03, p≤ .01). and the diastolic blood pressure of hypertensive patients at .00 ((R= .23, R2 = .05, Adjusted R2 = .05, p≤ .001).
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