ABSTRACT

Background of the study: This study shows that how Hypertension affects the life of the individualspecially the IT employees who have a sedentary lifestyle. This also shows that any people suffering with Hypertension shows results that they know how to take care of themselves by measuring the Hypertensionregularly and taking care of their health by medications. There are different ways to balance the blood pressure and that is by changing their life style in their daily life. Mainly diet plays a vital role in maintaining blood pressure in addition to that exercise also plays a role in maintaining blood pressure. In this pretest and posttest was taken and had found the significant and non significant values. Aim: The main aim of the study is to find out the Knowledge and Practice regarding management of Hypertension among the employees of selected IT companies. Material and methods: A pre experimental study was conducted in finding the Knowledge and Practiceregarding management of Hypertension among the employees of selected IT companies. This study consists of total 113 hypertensive employees, data was were collected from the IT companies of Vadodara and the samples were the known cases of Hypertension. Knowledge level and Practice checklist was given toknow the Knowledge level of the patient. Here a Knowledge questionnaire regarding Hypertension wasprepared for the employeesanda Practicechecklist was given which contained statementsof how theywere taking care of themselves. Here non randomized consecutivesampling had been used as the sampling technique .The statistical test of the Knowledge and Practice was found , the descriptive inferential statistics was used. The inferential statics used here were the T test and chi square test to find out the association between the Knowledge level of the employees. Result: In regard to the Knowledge question it was found that out of 113 samples I had done pre test and post test and had significantly compared these values and found out that the pre test level of knowledge hasthe values of 2(1.8%) are having good Knowledge regarding management of Hypertension, 2(1.8%) have average Knowledge regarding knowledge of Hypertension, 109(96.5%) are poor knowledge regarding Hypertension. After the intervention the employees had improved their knowledge and the values are 92(81.4%), have good knowledge, 17(15%) have an average knowledge, 4(3.5%) has poor knowledge regarding hypertension. According to the practice level too the pretest and post test was done and found out that after the intervention the employees hadimproved their efficiency in practice level and out of 113 samples in the pre test the employees has anaverage knowledge regarding how to manage the hypertension. The pre test results were 5(4.4%) had good practice habits, 21(18.6%) has an average level of practice habits and 87(77%) had good practicing habits. After the intervention there had been changes in their lifestyles and the results were effective. After the intervention the results showed that 48 (42.5%) had good knowledge on how to maintain their hypertension, 56(49.6%) had an average level while 8(7.1) had poor knowledge on how to maintain their hypertension. After that the pre test and the post test was compared to find out the significance of both andfound that it had been effective as their t value was higher than that of table value, the t value was15.664while the table value was 1.660. Therefore, both the knowledge and practice level had been effective in study. Conclusion: In a nutshell , the study concluded that the planned teaching program regarding Hypertension was useful and effective for them to manage their lives to maintain their blood pressure. Keywords: Hypertension, IT employees, management of Hypertension
Publication date: 15/12/2023

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2023/12.12.1035