| Summary: | 碩士 === 弘光科技大學 === 護理研究所 === 104 === Abstract
Hypertension is one of the world's most prevalent chronic diseases and impacts more and more people recently. It can be controlled effectively if people follow the sustained health care, improving the lifestyle and self-management skills. Therefore, there was a study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the health promotion program. A quasi-experimental study design was used. The study was conducted in 2015, from April to June in two elderly community care centers, one for experimental group (n=28), the other one for control group (n=27).Data were analyzed using SPSS version 22.0. Descriptive statistics, chi-square test, independent sample t test, Mann - Whitney U test were used.
The results of this study showed: (1) Both systolic and diastolic blood pressure were reduced more in experimental group than control group (p=.002; p=.002);(2)The participants’ dietary behavior (p=.009), exercise behavior (p<0.01), and medication compliance behavior (p<0.01) has improved in the experimental group.
According to the results of this study, health promotion program self-management intervention has significantly reduced blood pressure so that the health promotion program is feasible and effective. It can be a reference for designing elderly health promotion program to enhance people’s health.
Keywords: health promotion program, community elderly, hypertension, self-management .
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