Title: The influence of health education in health physical examination with hypertension patients ABSTRACT
Background: Hypertension is a big problem of public health in the world. With the improvement of standard of living,change of food structure and the pressure from social competition,the morbidity of hypertention has increased in China .During the health physical examination, we found many hypertension patients know little about hypertension disease and the fatalness of the disease.But at the same time, they also expect to get some help .Through the health education ,to build up the consciousness of self-health care, to raise the ability of self-control. Objectives: To explore the influence of health education in health physical examination with hypertension patients. Object：This research was carried out in two periods. 1.The first period:from January to October ，2008.We chose 200 person who was diagnosed hypertension in our physical examination, they were chosen on free will.The criterion of diagnoses was according to the standard from WHO/ISH. Among them,male :164 person ,aged from 28-60 ; female: 46 person , aged from 32-58. 2.The second period:from April to October,2009, re-investigate the 200 person who were educated in the first period. Methods: Questionnaire.The questionnaire was designed by ourself. Take different health education measures,and performed survey before and after the instruction. 1. Put out the same questionnaire to the hypertension sufferer who was willing to be chosen before and after the education . The questionnaire was answered and written by themselves,and we took back the answer sheets at once . The content of questionnaire included the ABC of hypertension disease , the risk factor , the syndrome , the prevent measure , the treatment means etc. 2. Put out the questionnaire to the 200 person who were educated in the first period ,we took back 126 effective answer sheets, The content of questionnaire included the control of blood pressure , the compliance of treatment and self-care ability.etc. Results: 1.After the health education ,the hypertension patients know more about the disease. 2. Through the education , the rate of control of blood pressure , the compliance of treatment , the self-care ability were all raised . Conclusion: In health physical examination , health education play a big role in the percentage of awareness ,treatment and control of hypertension ,and in self-care ability.
KEY WORDS: health physical examination,health education,hypertension
