Key result
The Virtual Anti-Hypertensive Educational Campaign significantly improved knowledge and attitude regarding hypertension management (P < 0.001), but did not significantly change practice parameters (P = 0.131).
Why the study?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health promotion faced major obstacles in delivering hypertension education without transmitting the virus, prompting evaluation of a virtual educational campaign in primary care.
Does a virtual anti-hypertensive educational campaign improve knowledge, attitude, and practice of hypertension management in adults with grade I hypertension during the COVID-19 pandemic?
RCT (n=110)
Double-blind
Block randomization
No
Does a virtual anti-hypertensive educational campaign improve knowledge, attitude, and practice of hypertension management in adults with grade I hypertension during the COVID-19 pandemic?
p-value: p=<0.001
A virtual anti-hypertensive educational campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic successfully improved patient knowledge and attitudes regarding hypertension, but was insufficient to significantly change actual disease management practices.
Virtual education boosts hypertension knowledge and attitude but not practice; extends virtual intervention data while cautioning against assuming practice change.
BACKGROUND: One of the efforts to reduce hypertension rates in the community is through an educational campaign that refers to the NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute curricula or abbreviated as NHLBI. However, during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, one of the hardest hit areas is health promotion, and there is a significant obstacle regarding the most effective way to transfer knowledge, attitude and practice towards society without transmitting the virus. AIM: To evaluate the impact of the virtual anti-hypertensive educational campaign towards knowledge, attitude, and the practice of hypertension management in the primary care setting during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: An online action research with a randomized crossover-controlled trial using a pretest-posttest control group design. The study was conducted in October 2020-April 2021. The population in this study were patients with hypertension who were treated in the Mojo primary health care setting. A purposive sampling technique was done to receive 110 participants using an online questionnaire and invitation letter. RESULTS: = 0.131). CONCLUSION: The Virtual Anti-Hypertensive Educational Campaign implementation in our study population seems to be effective to improve knowledge and attitude of participants, nevertheless, this program seems to be ineffective to improve the practice of hypertension management aspect in participants. Future study with longer durations and more comprehensive programs need to be done to scrutinize the clinical impact of this program nationwide.
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Andrianto et al. (2022) conducted an RCT in Hypertension (n=110). Virtual Anti-Hypertensive Educational Campaign vs. Standard medical check and medical treatment without anti-hypertensive education was evaluated on Improvement in knowledge and attitude regarding hypertension management (p=<0.001). The Virtual Anti-Hypertensive Educational Campaign significantly improved knowledge and attitude regarding hypertension management (P < 0.001), but did not significantly change practice parameters (P = 0.131).
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