An effect evaluation on community health self-management carried out by health club / 预防医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the effect of community health self-management which was carried out by health club. Methods A total of 163 health club members attended 6 lessons of standardized health self-management course during 3 months. The awareness rate of related healthy knowledge,self-management behavior forming rate,BMI,blood pressure, FBG and other indexes were measured before and after 3 months. Results The average awareness rate increased significantly after the project(P<0. 05). In terms of self-management behavior forming condition,the achievement rates significantly increased in aspects of"Daily exercise time longer than 30 minutes"and"Daily intake of vegetables more than 250g"(both P<0. 05). While the average diastolic pressure among 121 hypertensive participants and fasting blood -glucose value of 47 diabetic participants both decreased significantly after the project(both P<0. 05). Conclusion The effect of education on community health self-management for chronic disease prevention which carried out by health club is positive apparently. It has certain functions on blood pressure and FBG control while short-term influence on BMI has not been found.