Key result
Community-based CVD prevention program improves health behaviors, self-efficacy, and diastolic blood pressure versus standard care.
Why the study?
The effects of a community-based cardiovascular disease prevention program on health behavior and modifiable cardiovascular risk factors in low-income elderly with hypertension were not established.
Does a community-based cardiovascular disease prevention program improve health behavior and modifiable cardiovascular risk factors in low-income elderly patients with hypertension?
Does a community-based cardiovascular disease prevention program improve health behavior and modifiable cardiovascular risk factors in low-income elderly patients with hypertension?
p-value: p=0.016, 0.001, 0.018
A 3-month community-based cardiovascular disease prevention program administered by visiting nurses significantly improved self-efficacy, health behaviors, and diastolic blood pressure in low-income elderly patients with hypertension.
May support nurse-led programs for elderly hypertensives; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
This study identified the effects of a community-based cardiovascular disease prevention program (CVD-PP) on health behavior and modifiable cardiovascular risk factors in low-income Korean elderly with hypertension. Eighty-eight individuals completed the 3-month self-efficacy-enhancing interventions in which the control group received standard care. In the intervention group, there were statistically significant improvements in self-efficacy (t = 2.519, p = 0.016) and health behavior (t = 3.453, p = 0.001), and significant differences in diastolic blood pressure (t = -2.518, p = 0.018) between the two groups. This CVD-PP administered by visiting nurses may be effective in improving self-efficacy and health behavior and in reducing modifiable cardiovascular risk factors.
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Yang et al. (2016) studied Hypertension (n=88). Community-based cardiovascular disease prevention program (CVD-PP) vs. Standard care was evaluated on Self-efficacy, health behavior, and diastolic blood pressure (p=0.016, 0.001, 0.018). A 3-month community-based cardiovascular disease prevention program significantly improved self-efficacy (p=0.016), health behavior (p=0.001), and diastolic blood pressure (p=0.018) vs standard care.
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