A culturally adapted WHO-ISH multimodal education program significantly improved the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of Ugandan nurses caring for hypertensive patients in an outpatient clinic.
Does a culturally adapted WHO-ISH multimodal education program improve knowledge, skills, and attitudes in nurses caring for hypertensive patients?
A culturally adapted WHO-ISH education program significantly improved the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of Ugandan nurses caring for hypertensive patients in a low-resource environment.
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) pose a significant global burden in both developed and developing countries. It is estimated that, by 2025, 41.7% of males and 38.7% of females in Sub-Saharan Africa will develop high blood pressure (HBP). This is particularly true in Uganda with hypertensive prevalence rates estimated to range from 22.5% to 30.5%. Coupled with low levels of detection, treatment, and control, hypertension represents a Ugandan public health crisis. An innovative WHO-ISH education program culturally was adapted in a pilot study and focused on knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA) of nurses caring for hypertensive patients in an outpatient clinic. Pre-post intervention data was collected and analyzed in which significant improvements were noted on all the three outcome measures. This pilot study demonstrated that nurses' knowledge, skills, and attitudes could be significantly improved with a multimodal education program implemented in a low resource environment.
Katende et al. (Wed,) conducted a other in Hypertension. Culturally adapted WHO-ISH education program vs. Pre-intervention was evaluated on Knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA). A culturally adapted WHO-ISH multimodal education program significantly improved the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of Ugandan nurses caring for hypertensive patients in an outpatient clinic.