Effectiveness of Education Module on Knowledge and Practice Towards Controlling Blood Pressure among Hypertensive Adults

Background: Hypertension is one of the major disease conditions nowadays.The majority of hypertensive adults won't go for proper treatment, and it may lead to multiple complications.Therefore, this experimental study conducted to reduce the associated complications of hypertension.Methods: One-group, quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test design was used in this study.The sample size comprises 30 hypertensive adults attending medical consultation at BVVS HSK Hospital Research Center, Bagalkot, Karnataka, India.A nonprobability convenient sampling strategy was used in the current investigation.A knowledge questionnaire (including sociodemographic data of hypertensive patients and knowledge on blood pressure control) and a self-developed practice scale was used for data collection.Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to analyze the data.Results: No association was observed between the levels of post-test knowledge and sociodemographic characteristics such as age, residence, gender, monthly income, occupation, education, family type, marital status, dietary habits, and religion.Postintervention mean practice scores of hypertensive adults were statistically higher than that of their pre-intervention practice mean score on knowledge t=-8.8880(p-value=0.0001),p<0.05 and practice t=-7.5421(p-value=0.0001),p<0.05.The education module was found effective in controlling blood pressure among hypertensive adults. Conclusion:The study proved that administering an education module on knowledge and practice to control blood pressure in hypertensive adults is effective in controlling blood pressure among hypertensive adults.