Effectiveness of life style modification program on blood pressure health behavior lifestyle practices and selected bio physiological parameters among pre hypertensives

Abstract

The prehypertensive people are not aware of the ill effects of increased newlineblood pressure and its impact. Unawareness of the impact of the hypertension newlinecan be reduced by detecting in its prehypertensive stage itself. newlinePrehypertension is not an illness but it is an important warning that the person newlinemight proceed to the next level that is hypertension. A survey of rural villages newlinein Tiruvallur districts under the coverage of Omayal Achi Community health newlineCentre showed a high prevalence (40%) of pre-hypertension among adults. newlineThe fact that without intervention this cohort of people may progress to the newlinelevel of hypertension shortly and will be on prescribed pharmacological newlinetreatment for management of hypertension cannot be denied. Pre newlinehypertension, if undetected earlier, can lead to hypertension which exhibits a newlinephenomenon of ice berg where unknown morbidity exceeds the known newlinemorbidity.Hence, the need to develop comprehensive and integrated approaches newlineto minimize the risk among the people with prehypertension is imperative. newlineThe life style modification program which has greater impact on blood newlinepressure, behaviour change and bio physiological parameters are needed. newlineVarious research studies have been conducted using various approaches, but newlineadherence to the interventions suggested was not properly confirmed.Therefore, this study was undertaken to newlinemeasure the impact of life style modification program on blood pressure, newlinehealth behaviour change, life style practices and bio physiological parameters newlineamong people with pre-hypertension who are residing in the rural hamlets. newline