พฤติกรรมสุขภาพครอบครัวที่มีบุคคลป่วยเป็นโรคความดันโลหิตสูงมารับบริการ ณ โรงพยาบาลจังหวัดเชียงขวาง ประเทศสาธารณรัฐ ประชาธิปไตย ประชาชนลาว Family health behavior among hypertension patients at Xiengkhouang Provincial Hospital Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Abstract

The purpose of this descriptive research was to study health behavior among family with hypertensive patients at the Xieng Khouang provincial hospital, Lao People's Democratic Republic. Health promotion model of Pender, Murdaugh, and Parsons (2015) was applied. The  participants were 100 hypertensive patients and their family members  were 100 which were selected by systematic randomed sampling method. The study tool was health behavior of hypertensive patient and family interview forms. The data was analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. And content analysis was used to analyze interviewed data from open-ended questions.

Results showed that mean score of hypertensive patients’ health behavior was in moderate level (  = 2.22 S.D = 0.25) varied 1 – 3  and family health behaviors was also in moderate level (  = 2.32 S.D = 0.24) varied 1 - 3. In term of perception, some of hypertensive patients had not been known about their illness before , no symptom. They knew by accidentally diagnosed. For treatment, they had percept that they would stop medicine including not follow up because  when they had no symptom,. They did not control risk factors, especially, smoking, Drinking alcohol and eating salty food. And they did not perform regular physical activity. In part of family, they had not known the patients had hypertension illness. Therefore, they did not provided care for treatment, control appropriate diet, and encourage physical activity.

In conclusion, as the study findings showed that perception and health behavior among hypertensive patients and their families lack of knowledge for calf care. Therefore, nurses should use the result to plan and design health promotion for family system to modify their perception and health behaviors for effectively controlling hypertension based on related factors and reliable research process.