Survey on health self-focused attention and disease awareness among patients with essential hypertension in the community / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To survey the health self-focused attention and disease awareness among patients with primary hypertension in the community.Methods:Twenty patients with essential hypertension in the community participated in one-on-one in-depth interviews from May to June 2021. The contents of the interview include basic personal information, opinions and concerns about their own health status, knowledge and attitude towards essential hypertension (including disease experience, illness feedback, active disease control and management, communication with doctors and peer patients). Colaizzi 7-step analysis method was used to analyze the interview results and summarize the topics, and the obtained topic information was transformed into semi-quantitative items for cluster analysis.Results:Seven topics were sorted out from the interview information, and 17 items were formed after semi-quantitative processing. After cluster analysis, the interviewees can be divided into two categories. There were significant differences between the two categories in the performance of 9 items, specifically self-evaluation of blood pressure control, perceived overall health status, attention to their own health, opinions on the relationship between hypertension and family history, frequency of blood pressure monitoring, knowledge of hypertension prevention and treatment, difficulty in the treatment process, drug treatment effect, and patient support. When the number of clusters was 2, the contour coefficient was 0.21.Conclusion:The psychological concept of "health self-focused attention" exists objectively in essential hypertension patients, and patients with higher "health self-focused attention" can actively perceive their own health status and have better self-health management behaviors.