Knowledge, Awareness and Practice Outcomes: Evaluating the Impact of Nutrition Counseling among Hypertensive Subjects
Sodhi Kaur Navneet *
Department of Food and Nutrition, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Punjab, India.
Singla Neerja
Department of Food and Nutrition, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Punjab, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
In the present study impact of developed nutrition education package was studied on awareness regarding lifestyle modification of hypertensive subjects. One hundred and twenty (120) hypertensive patients were selected from Punjab Agricultural University Hospital, Ludhiana of age 45 to 60 years, both sexes (male and female). The subjects were alternatively divided into two equal groups; Experimental (E) group, comprising of sixty patients (thirty males and thirty females), which received the lifestyle modification intervention for the control of blood pressure. The second was the Control (C) group, comprising of sixty patients (thirty males and thirty females), which was exposed to routine outpatient care only. Present study concluded that developed nutrition education package had a highly significant (p<0.001) impact on the improvement in knowledge, awareness and practices of the subjects.
Keywords: Hypertension, lifestyle modification, nutrition education, knowledge, awareness and practices