Why the study?
Social support received from the spouse and self-care are effective factors in controlling and preventing complications of high blood pressure.
Spousal social support is significantly associated with better adherence to self-care behaviors and lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure in patients with hypertension.
Spousal support may associate with hypertension self-care adherence; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective confirmation before practice change.
Since Social support received from the spouse and self-care are effective factors in controlling and preventing the complications of chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, this study was conducted to determine the relationship between social support received from spouse and adherence to self-care behaviors in patients with high blood pressure in Qom.
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Arabshahi et al. (2020) studied this question.
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