Effects of Stroke Prevention Program among Elderly with hypertension Network Primary Care Unit KoKha District, Lampang Province.

Abstract

        Stroke has been was a public health problem in the world and of a major cause of death. Most of patients were a physical disability as paralytic or paralysis and became to be a family burden.Become a burden to the family. An economic loss like a medical expense was the consequence to the family. Wasting medical expenses caused the economic loss of the family. The purpose of this quasi-experiment was to study Effects of Stroke Prevention Program among Elderly with hypertension. The samples were 60 elderly with hypertension diagnosed by the doctor at Network Primary Care Unit (NPCU) Kokha District, Lampang Province. The tools were: the stroke prevention program based on the protection motivation theory consist of perceived noxiousness, perceived susceptibility, outcomes of self-efficacy and expectancy on self–efficacy, and The data collection methods were questionnaire with personal data, blood pressure and stroke prevention behaviors. The study were 12 weeks between January to March 2023. The statistical analysis were analyzed by frequency, a percentage, means, standard deviation and Paired t-Test.

        The results of this study were as follows; the means of the behavioral change of the stroke prevention scores were significantly higher than, before the samples participated a study (t = -22.264, p<.001). The average systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure were significantly lower than, before the samples were first started using program (t = 5.636, p<.001) (t = 20.679, p<.001)