Effects of web-based diabetes and hypertension screening on health belief perception, preventive behavior, blood pressure, and blood sugar among individuals who are at risk
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perceptions of health belief pattern, prevention behaviors, diabetes and hypertension , electronic health website for risk screening, health risksAbstract
This quasi-experimental research aimed to compare the pre-and post-diabetes and hypertension screening website on people with pre-diabetes and/or pre-hypertension. Participants who met the inclusion criteria were assigned to the experimental or control group, eighteen in each group. The experiment and data collection were in eight weeks. The study tools two parts: 1) The tool used in the experiment, which was developed website for screening of diabetes., and hypertension conditions. And 2) The study tool for collecting data which consisted of (1) demographic characteristics questionnaire, (2) health status records, (3) health belief model perception questionnaire, and (4) diabetes and hypertension preventive behavior questionnaire. The demographic data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and compared the means in the group using the independent and between groups using the dependent t-test.
Findings showed that the experimental group had higher scores on perception and preventive behaviors than the control group. Moreover, the blood sugar mean scores at the end of the study among the experimental group were lower than before the study. In addition, systolic and diastolic blood pressure of all participants was increased before the study but was still probable to be hypertension. Therefore, the research results revealed that using the developed website could help to promote awareness of people health beliefs and behaviors to prevent diabetes and hypertension conditions.
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