Sakuntala Anuruang. The effects of empowering care program on health status and health service satisfaction among women with hypertension . Master's Degree(Adult Nursing). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2007.
The effects of empowering care program on health status and health service satisfaction among women with hypertension
Abstract:
The purpose of this quasi-experimental research was to compare the effects of
participation in the Empowering Care Program on Health Status and Health Service
Satisfaction among women with essential hypertension at the hypertension clinic,
Pakthongchai Hospital, Nakhonratchasima Province. The samples were 76 women
with hypertension selected by means of purposive sampling based on the inclusion and
exclusion criteria and consecutive assignment by the tambon visited by a researcher.
The women were separated into the experimental group and the control group. The
program was an 8-week Empowering Care Program. Data included a personal
information questionnaire, health service satisfaction questionnaires, and health status
measures (Systolic Blood Pressure, Diastolic Blood Pressure, Waist Circumference,
and Total Cholesterol Level). Pair t-test or Wilcoxon Signed Rank test was applied for
analyses of within-group differences between before and after participating in the
program. To compare between control and experimental group at the end of program,
independent t-test or Man-Whitney U test was used.
Before participating in the program, no statistically significant differences of
health status and health service satisfaction between control and experimental groups
were found. By the end of the 8-week program, the results revealed that women with
hypertension in the experimental group had better health status and higher scores of
health service satisfaction than both before entering the program and those in the
control group with a statistical significance at p<0.05.
In summary, the 8-week Empowering Care Program by Feminist Perspective
demonstrated its effectiveness on improved health status and increased health service
satisfaction among women with hypertension. Taking individual lifestyle and sharing
information into an account of an intervention program is significant to promote the
success of self-care practice among women with hypertension; therefore,
disseminating the program should be considered for future studies among women with
hypertension in other settings or women with other chronic illnesses.