Correlation between family support and quality of life among hypertensive patients

Abstract

The study objective were to determine family support, assess HRQol and examine whether family support correlates to Qol amelioration among patients with hypertension. Quantitative study with retrospective designs was used to carry out this research. Data collection for Qol and family support were to measure condition of the hypertensive patients for the last month. Meanwhile, blood pressure values as a criterion to select research participants based on the current measurement during the study. Data was collected from 30 participants who selected by using convenience sampling technique from hypertensive patients in Teluk Kenidai Village, Kampar. Ethical consideration was obtained by approval of the research committee in University of Riau. Univariate analysis shown that majority of participants are female (24 or 80%), the most of them have suffered from mild hypertension (15 or 50%) and dominated by length of the disease 1-5 years (14 or 46.7%). Descriptively, majority of the participants have good level of Qol (17 or 56.7%) and good of family support (19 or 63.3%). Furthermore, inferential statistic (chi-square) has shown that p value is 0.454>α (0.05) indicates that there is no correlation between family support and Qol. Can be concluded that Qol and family support among hypertensive patients in Teluk Kenidai Village were in good level but statistically, the level of Qol among them significantly was not correlated with their family support.