Effectiveness of drumstick leaves tea on level of blood pressure among clients with hypertension at selected hospital

Sunitha S; Chandra Prakash Sharma; Lavanya B

Volume : X, Issue : VIII, August - 2020

Effectiveness of drumstick leaves tea on level of blood pressure among clients with hypertension at selected hospital

Sunitha S, Chandra Prakash Sharma, Lavanya B

Abstract :

Hypertension is an interesting disease entity of its own. It remains silent, being generally asymptomatic during its clinical course. As its clinical course is hidden beneath outwardly asymptomatic appearance, the disease does immense harm to the body in the form of target organ damage; hence, the WHO has named it “silent killer”. 5 This study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of drumstick leaves tea on level of blood pressure among client’s with hypertension at selected hospital Vellore during 2017–2018. The study was done in 60 hypertensive clients. These clients were randomly divided into two groups (n=30). The study was conducted by adopting quasi experimental, control group pretest posttest design. The experimental group was given drumstick leaves tea and control group was without intervention. Blood pressure were analyzed before and after the intervention (drumstick leaves tea) for five days. The blood pressure was measured by Sphygmomanometer, it was analyzed statistically by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The result showed that pretest mean value of SBP was 153.5 with S.D 10.1 and the posttest mean value of SBP was 135 with S.D 8.71, were as pretest mean value of DBP = 94.2 with S.D= 8.7 and the posttest mean value of DBP was 82.2 with S.D 4.38.The calculated ‘t’ value is 14.15 for SBP and t= 12.97 for DBP was found to be statistically significant at p<0.001 level. This clearly shows that the administration of drumstick leaves tea on level of blood pressure among client with Hypertension had significant reduction in their posttest level of blood pressure among clients with Hypertension in experimental group. . In addition, the result observed that the calculated ‘t’ value of t = 4.89 for SBP and t =3.77 for DBP in control group was found to be statistically significant at p<0.001 level. This clearly shows that the administration of drumstick leaves tea on level of blood pressure among clients with Hypertension had significant reduction in their posttest level of blood pressure among clients with Hypertension in experimental group than the clients with Hypertension in the control group.