عنوان مقاله :
Adherence to Self-Care Behaviors among Hypertensive Patients
پديد آورندگان :
Pirzadeh ، Asiyeh Isfahan University of Medical Sciences - Faculty of Health - Department of Health Educaton and Promoton , Peyman ، Tahereh Sim Isfahan University of Medical Sciences - School of Health , Hassanzadeh ، Akbar Isfahan University of Medical Sciences - Faculty of Health - Department of Biostatstcs and Epidemiology , Mostafavi ، Firoozeh Isfahan University of Medical Sciences - Faculty of Health - Department of Health Educaton and Promoton
كليدواژه :
Self , care , Hypertension , Physical Actvity , Diet , Medicaton adherence
چكيده فارسي :
Background and Objective: Adherence to selfcare behaviors among hypertensive patients is a major factor in hypertension management. Hence, this study aimed to determine the selfcare behaviors among patients with hypertension in Isfahan. Materials and Methods: A crosssectional study, with 210 hypertensive patients having referred to health centers in Isfahan 2016 Multistage random sampling was applied. The HSCALE questionnaire including data on adherence to medication, low salt diet, smoking, physical activity and weight management was completed by interview. The data were analyzed using the SPSS software, version 20. Descriptive and analytical statistics as well as the independent ttest and ChiSquare were applied. The significance level was set at 0.05. Results: The mean age of the subjects was 57.3±8.9. More than 90% of male and more than 80% of female reported being adherent to hypertension medication. Lowsalt diet adherence in male was more than female 15.4% and 6% respectively. But female were following physical activity (22.8%) more than male (11.5%). The results showed that there was a significant difference between men and women in adherence to medication (p=0.034), no smoking (p=0.001) and and physical activity (p=0.004) . Discussion: Although more than 90% of our participants adhered medication description or weight managements for self care, but the rate of low salt diet adherence and physical activity still needs improvement. It seems that health educators should be prepared specific protocol to improve the self care behaviors.
