Influences of KTH integrated intervention on the blood pressure and quality of life of community elderly hypertensive patients / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To know about the influences of KTH integrated intervention on the blood pressure and quality of life of elderly patients with essential hypertension so as to explore the effective model of health education suitable for them. Methods 120 elderly hypertensive patients recruited from the community in Hengyang city were randomly divided into the experimental group and the control group, each group had 60 patients. The experimental group accepted KTH integrated intervention weekly, and control group was accepted routine hypertension education monthly. The blood pressure was taken before, during and after intervention. Meantime the quality of life was surveyed with WHOQOL- 100 questionnaires before and after the intervention. Results The systolic pressure and diastolic pressure in the experimental group were more lower than those before intervention and those of the control group after intervention. The hypertension of the experimental group was more stable as the time passed. There were distinguished differences between two groups in the quality of life, physical, psychological, social relationships, environmental and spirituality domain. However, there was no distinguished differences between two groups in the domain of independence. Conclusions KTH integrated intervention can make elderly hypertensive patients to keep blood pressure stable and improve their quality of life.