Yatim, Hanisah Mohd and Wong, Yuet Yen and Lim, Seng Hock and Hassali, Mohamad Azmi and Hong, Yet Hoi and Dali, Ahmad Fauzi and Neoh, Chin Fen (2018) Evaluation of a group-based hypertension self-management education programme among hypertensive community dwellers. European Journal of Integrative Medicine, 24. pp. 79-84. ISSN 1876-3820, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2018.10.016.
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Introduction: Low self-efficacy level among patients with hypertension could be the underlying reason for poor daily disease self-management, leading to suboptimal blood pressure (BP) control. A structured, group-based hypertension self-management education (HSME) programme could be a potential solution to improve BP control; however, impact of HSME programme in the Malaysian setting remain unknown. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a structured, group-based HSME programme on hypertensive patients’ clinical and psychosocial outcomes. Methods: A pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study design was employed. Participants attended a total of 4-weekly of the HSME programme at a community hall. Participants’ clinical and psychosocial outcomes were assessed at three time-points. Data were analysed using IBM SPSS version 23.0. Results: Forty-five participants consented to join the programme, with 36 (80.0%) attended two or more sessions. At post 1-week of intervention, participants were found to have significant improvement in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol (p = 0.001), number of days spent on vigorous physical activity (p = 0.007), motivation (p = 0.005) and self-efficacy (p = 0.005). At 2-month, participants have sustained increased in HDL cholesterol, motivation and self-efficacy, in addition to a significant improvement in self-care behaviour (p = 0.002). Conclusions: The short-term HSME programme elicited certain positive clinical and psychosocial outcomes, a larger scale randomised controlled trial should be carried out to determine the effective elements of the HSME programme that lead to the self-care behavioural changes and to evaluate the long-term impacts of sustained self-care practices among community dwellers with hypertension.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Ministry of Education, Malaysia: Research Acculturation Grant Scheme [600-RMI/RAGS 5/3 (53/2014)], UiTM internal grant [600-IRMI/DANA5/3/BESTARI (015/2017)] |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Collaborative; Self-management; Education; Self-efficacy; Community |
| Subjects: | R Medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Feb 2019 07:18 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2019 07:18 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/20296 |
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