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What are the prevalence and predictors of self-care practices among hypertensive patients in Southwest Ethiopia?
What are the prevalence and predictors of self-care practices among hypertensive patients in Southwest Ethiopia?
Adherence to self-care practices among hypertensive patients in Southwest Ethiopia is suboptimal, with specific predictors like self-efficacy, weight, and gender influencing different self-care domains.
Suboptimal self-care adherence in Southwest Ethiopian hypertensives should not yet change practice; leaves open whether targeting self-efficacy and weight improves outcomes.
A 341-hypertensive patients participated in the study. The mean age of the participants was 54.35 ± 12.48 years with range of 26 to 89 years. One hundred seventy-seven (51.9%) respondents were males and male to female ratio is 1.08. About 61.9% of respondents were adherent to medication usage and 30.5%, 44.9%, 88.3%, 93.5% and 56.9% of respondents were adherent to low salt diet, physical activity, non-alcohol drinking, nonsmoking and weight management respectively. Normal weight (AOR = 1.822, 95% CI 1.073-3.093) was independent predictor of medication usage whereas good self-efficacy (AOR = 2.584, 95% CI 1.477-4.521) and being female (AOR = 0.517, 95% CI 0.301-0.887) were independent predictor of low salt diet and physical activity respectively. Also being female (AOR = 3.626, 95% CI 1.211-10.851) was independent predictors of non-smoking.
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