Abstract
Introduction: Controlling hypertension across world continues to be challenging. Managing hypertension is not only concerned with lowering blood pressure by using antihypertensive medications; it also aims to minimize its consequences through adopting self-care practices. Compliance with self-care practices among patients with hypertension is considered a multidimensional phenomenon. The phenomenon of hypertension has been studied quantitatively, however; little qualitative studies were conducted to understand the compliance with self-care among patients with hypertension. Aim: To understand the process that patients with hypertension go through to comply with self-care practices. Methods: This study used a qualitative design that followed constructivist grounded theory approach; purposive sampling was used to recruit participants from cardiac clinics; semi structured, in-depth and face-to-face interview was used as a major method for data collection. Findings: Four participants with hypertension participated in this study; the phenomena of self-care was identified as the central phenomena; the start of the disease was identified as a casual condition; beliefs toward hypertension disease, beliefs toward self-care practices, knowledge and awareness regarding hypertension disease and self-care practices were identified as strategies; experiencing self-care practices was identified as consequence and being patients with hypertension in a social context. Conclusions: The process of compliance with self-care has a path of actions and interactions. The process started from the moment of diagnosis where the patients start to think about self-care. The absence of health care context leads to varying level of compliance with self-care among patients with hypertension. This indicated the need for more effective patient and health care provider relationship, education and awareness campaign.
Highlights
IntroductionManaging hypertension is concerned with lowering blood pressure by using antihypertensive medications; it aims to minimize its consequences through adopting self-care practices
Controlling hypertension across world continues to be challenging
Four participants with hypertension participated in this study; the phenomena of self-care was identified as the central phenomena; the start of the disease was identified as a casual condition; beliefs toward hypertension disease, beliefs toward self-care practices, knowledge and awareness regarding hypertension disease and self-care practices were identified as strategies; experiencing self-care practices was identified as consequence and being patients with hypertension in a social context
Summary
Managing hypertension is concerned with lowering blood pressure by using antihypertensive medications; it aims to minimize its consequences through adopting self-care practices. Compliance with self-care practices among patients with hypertension is considered a multidimensional phenomenon. Aim: To understand the process that patients with hypertension go through to comply with self-care practices. Managing HTN is concerned with lowering blood pressure by using antihypertensive medications; it aims to minimize its consequences through adopting self-care practices [1]. Compliance with self-care practices among patients with HTN is considered a multidimensional phenomenon [3] since it requires frequent monitoring of blood pressure, regular exercise, and low salt-fat diet, and stress management, weight control, smoking cessation and alcohol avoidance [4]. Hypertension self-care was associated with improvement of patients’ quality of life and health outcomes [6] [7]
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