Volume : V, Issue : III, March - 2016

Effectiveness of planned teaching program on knowledge regarding lifestyle modification to control hypertension among hypertensive patient

Mrs. P. Ponnarasi

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 Cardiovascular disease is the world leading killer disease. Among them hypertension is one of the common disease causing stroke death. Methodology ;evaluative research approach and pre experimental one group pretest post test design without control group was used for the study .Results : finding of the study revealed that during pre test out of 60 samples majority of the samples ,76.7% had inadequate knowledge , 23.3% had moderate knowledge and none of them had adequate knowledge , whereas in post test majority of the samples 78% had adequate knowledge . The mean post test knowledge score was 78 % and a standard deviation of 2.1 which was significantly higher than the mean pretest knowledge score 35.7% and a standard deviation of 2.8. It shows there was a significant association between post test knowledge scores of hypertensive patient regarding life style modificaion of hypertension with their socio demographic variables like gender, religion and life style modification , for hypertension at 0.05 level of significance.

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MRS.P.PONNARASI Effectiveness of planned teaching program on knowledge regarding lifestyle modification to control hypertension among hypertensive patient International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 5, Issue : 3 March 2016

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