The effects of community-based stroke prevention program to the knowledge and preventive health behaviors among clients with hypertension

Date of Completion

2013

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts in Nursing

Keywords

Hypertension, Health Education, Stroke, Health Behaviors

Abstract

his study utilized the quasi-experimental design where 60 hypertensive clients from Ternate, Cavite were selected using the criteria that include absence of other complications, male or female with age that ranged from 18 to 60 years old, coherent enough to answer the questions and have not attended any formal seminar or convention about hypertension and stroke. The study was conducted in two Barangays of Ternate, Cavite, namely: a) Barangay Sapang 1 for the 30 clients that comprised the treatment group and b) barangay San Juan 1 for another clients that comprised the control group. The knowledge of respondents in the control group was consistently very good regarding stroke and hypertension before and after community-based stroke prevention program, while the respondents in the treatment group have a very good knowledge regarding stroke and hypertension before the intervention and excellent knowledge after the community-based stroke prevention program. The preventive health behavior related to stroke with hypertension among clients in the control group before and after intervention was consistently very good. Whereas, in the treatment group, there was a very good preventive health behaviors before the intervention and excellent preventive health behaviors after community-based stroke prevention program. The knowledge of the respondents in the control and treatment groups regarding stroke and hypertension were both very good prior to implementation of community-based stroke prevention program. After exposure to nursing intervention, the knowledge of respondents in the treatment group became significantly higher than the respondents in the control group. Hence, these findings indicate that community-based stroke prevention program is an effective educational nursing intervention to enrich the knowledge of the respondents regarding stroke and hypertension.

Comments

Call Number: TG MAN 13 01

Location: Research Commons

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