Effect of Nurse-led Educational Program on Knowledge of Lifestyle Modification among Patients with Hypertension in Selected Hospital

Abstract

Introduction: Hypertension is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease and death in the world. Arecent estimate suggests that approximately billions of people have hypertension. Hypertension is a major public health problem in India and its prevalence is rapidly increasing among both urban and rural populations. To prevent high blood pressure, everyone should be encouraged to make lifestyle modifications, such as eating healthier diet (DASH diet), weight reduction and stress management, quit smoking and alcohol consumption, and getting more exercise. Since nurse-led educational program has proved to be effective tool in educating people, the researcher felt that by providing nurse-led educational program to hypertensive patients would be highly benefitted as they form a very vulnerable group of people. Aims: The aims of this study were to assess the effect of nurse-led educational program on knowledge of lifestyle modification among patients with hypertension in selected hospital. Materials and Methods: One group pre-and post-test research design was adopted. Astructured nurse-led educational program and questionnaire administered to asses pre-and post-test knowledge of lifestyle modification among patients with hypertension in selected hospital. Results: The analysis of the study found that there was a significant change (P < 0.05) in knowledge of the hypertensive patients. There was no association found between the various demographic variables and their pre-test knowledge. Conclusion: The nurse-led educational program proves to be effective in improving the knowledge regarding lifestyle modification among patients with hypertension.