A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Complementary Therapy on Management of Hypertension among Hypertensive Patients Attending to Shirur Primary Health Centre Bagalkot District

Abstract

Background of the Study: Hypertension is a cardiovascular disorder in which a person having high blood pressure over time. Those who are new to illness deal with fear, sorrow, and also lack of knowledge of the family members leads to more complications like recurrence. A study to assess the effectiveness of Structure Teaching Programme on knowledge regarding complementary therapy on management of hypertension among hypertensive patients attending to shirur primary health center Bagalkot district. Objectives: A study to assess the Knowledge regarding complementary therapy on management of hypertension among hypertensive patient. To assess the effectiveness of Structure Teaching Programme regarding complementary therapy on hypertension among hypertensive patients To find out the association between post test knowledge score with selected socio-demographic variables. Methodology: The pre-experimental one group pre test post test design was adopted for the present study. The sample for the present study includes 40 people from selected primary health centre shirur at Bagalkot District using simple random sampling technique. The data collected using structure close ended questionnaire and data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The levels of knowledge regarding complementary therapy on management of hypertension among hypertensive patients. Reveals that, most of pre test people (92.5%) had average knowledge (7.5%) them had poor knowledge. Whereas in post test majority people (67.5) of the people had good knowledge level (32.5%) of them had very good knowledge Similarly significant association was found between knowledge of hypertensive patients and demographic variables like gender (c2=1.11; p<0.05) education (c2=5.19; p<0.05) occupation (c2=3.56; p<0.05) types of family (c2=0.80; p<0.05). Conclusion: Findings show that, there is significant difference in knowledge of management of hypertension among hypertensive patients. Thus it is concluded that structure teaching programme should be administered to the hypertensive patients enhance knowledge regarding management of hypertension. Keywords: Hypertension, Knowledge, Structure Teaching Programme.