Self-care Behaviors and Blood Pressure Controlling Ability of Hypertension Patients, In the Area of Responsibility of Ban Khong Bo Ra Sub-district Health Promoting Hospital

Abstract

This survey research was aimed to study self-care behaviors, knowledge of hypertension, social support receiving, hypertension information receiving, blood pressure controlling ability, and the factors related to self-care behaviors of hypertension patients in the area responsible for the Ban Khong Bo Ra Sub-district Health Promoting Hospital. The sample group was 248 essential hypertension patients, ages 35 and over. All of them, selected by systematic random sampling. Research instruments were questionnaire and medical record form. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics and pearson,s product moment correlation. The results were as followings.

The results found that 76.6% of hypertension patients had moderate self-care behaviors, 70.2% had good level of hypertension knowledge, received high level of social support at 40.3%, followed by low level and medium level at 34.3 and 25.4%, received medium level of hypertension information at 50.8%. They could control blood pressure at 46.4%. In this regard, social support receiving, and hypertension information receiving were positive significantly associated with self-care behaviors (p-value < 0.05) at medium (r = 0.357) and low (r = 0.134) levels, respectively.

According to the results, should promote hypertensive patients to received social support and received hypertension information increased, modify the appropriate self-care behaviors.