The Survey of Self-Regulation Behaviors and Related Factors in Elderly with Hypertension in South-East of Iran

Abstract

Hypertension is one of the most important risk factors for heart diseases today. The effect of hypertension in the elderly is higher than other age groups and it may lead to changes in their quality of life. By the increase of age, the amount of self-care behaviors of patients with hypertension decreased. Therefore, control and self-care behaviors are so important. This study has been conducted to study self-regulation behaviors and Associated Factors in elderly patients with hypertension. This study was a cross sectional, descriptive analytic study, which was conducted using multistage sampling on the elderly 60 years and above with hypertension. The sample size was calculated 365 and the final sample size of 380 people was considered by possible losses. The instruments include of demographic and self-regulatory behaviors questionnaire. The results showed that self-regulation of behavior was 42.3% of the total score. In terms of quality, only 7.4% of the elderly had good behavior, 46.6% of poor performance, and the rest were mediocre performance. Age (p = 0.03), gender (p = 0.02), education (p = 0.001), income level (p = 0.03) and marital status (p = 0.001) significantly associated with behaviors of self-regulation. The results generally indicate unfavorable self-regulation of elderly patients with hypertension. Some variables such as gender, age, marital status, education and income levels were associated with these behaviors. So paying attention to the education of the elderly in care centers is essential.

Barriers to self-care in elderly people with hypertension: a qualitative study

“…Current failures in the healthcare system sub-category indicate a defect in the correct education of older people by the physician or nurses or a complex patient admission system for the visit (a telephone patient admission system) and a lot of time spent for an appointment in government clinics. The problem of incorrect education of older people by the physician or nurses was one of the specific findings of the present study, which was similar to the results of other Iranian studies (Fuladvandi et al, 2017;Nouhi and Abbaszadeh, 2016) but was not mentioned in any foreign study. The results of one study showed that the mean of drug training was 18.45 percent and dietary training was 45.14 percent (Chang, 2015).…”

Self-Regulated Behaviour and Mental Health Among IT Professionals

“…This is similar to the results obtained from elderly population reported from elsewhere (Fuladvandi et al, 2017), where married people were found to have higher levels of self-regulation when compared to the unmarried population. Age group is not found to be a significant discriminator between IT professionals in their self-regulated behaviour.…”

Family and Health Workers Support Influence Self-Regulation Based on Spirituality in Hypertension Patient

“…However, in patients with hypertension, it is found that the ability to perform self-care is still low (5)(6)(7) . This low self-regulatory ability is a factor that can lead to low self-care (8) . Studies show that self-regulation affects self-care abilities (9) .…”

“…Low self-regulation will fail to make changes in behavior (11) . In patients with hypertension, self-regulation is low (8) . This results in the sufferer experiencing failure to make behavior changes (12) .…”