Intervention on Blood Pressure Control in Communities
Resource
Emerging health problems in rapid socioeconomic development : proceedings, 1990 International Symposium on Health, Environment, & Social Change, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, July 1-5, 1990 pp.325-335
Journal
Emerging health problems in rapid socioeconomic development : proceedings, 1990 International Symposium on Health, Environment, & Social Change, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, July 1-5, 1990 pp.325-335
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Date Issued
1990
Date
1990
Author(s)
Yen, Lee-Lan
Chie, Wei-chu
Yaung, Chin-Liang
Shin, Chin-Shuni
Pan, Ling-Yen
Abstract
In order to investigate the effect of health intervention on the control of adult blood pressure, 590 cases residing in 50 communities in northern Taiwan were selected. Those cases with BP levels >= 140/90 mmHg were randomly assigned to a relaxation, BP-measurement, self-learning, or comparison groups. Intervention activities had been implemented in 1989. It was found that: (1) the dropout rates of the groups were high, but no significant difference among groups was found; (2)three interventions including relaxations, BP-measurement, and self-learning showed significant reductions in systolic BP; (3) some of the subjects in the self-learning group significantly changed their BP from ab-normal to normal. Overall, the introduction of educational strategies for blood pressure control in communities was ascertained.
Publisher
Taipei, Taiwan :, Institute of Public Health, National Taiwan University, , 1992
Type
conference paper
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