Nutritional Assessment Of Hypertensive Patients And The Impact Of Nutrition Education On Their Dietary Practices In Contrast To Dash Diet
By: Farah Naz (2012-VA-401)
| Miss Tahreem Hussain.
Contributor(s): Dr. Sanaullah Iqbal | Dr. Mamoona Chaudary.
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BookPublisher: 2015Description: 63p.Subject(s): Food Science and Human NutritionDDC classification: 2661-T Dissertation note: Hypertension is a common public health problem in developing countries. It leads to
further complications such as coronary heart disease, stroke and renal disorder. The main reason
is unawareness, poor dietary habits and worsened lifestyle in hypertensive patients. Nutritional
education at the right time may prevent other risk factors associated with hypertension.
Nutrition education have a positive impact on dietary practices of hypertensive patients
for secondary prevention.
A total of 200 hypertensive patients was purposively selected for this study. The willing
patients was informed about the purpose of study and consent was taken. The pretesting of the
hypertensive patients was administered about their usual dietary habits through questionnaire,
Food Frequency Questionnaire and 24-hour dietary recall. A total of 60 hypertensive patients
came with chronic diseases so they were excluded from the Research. Lessons and handouts on
nutrition education were given to the patients for a period of four weeks (1 month). After
completion of one month of nutrition education, post-testing was administered through filling up
of the same Questionnaire, Food Frequency Questionnaire and 24-hour dietary recall to assess
the improvement in dietary habits of hypertensive patients and results were calculated.
SPSS v. 21 was used for the compilation and analysis. Wilcoxon signed ranked test and
Paired t-test was applied to analyze the effectiveness of nutritional education on dietary habits of
hypertensive patients. Level of significance was p ≤ 0.05.
The present study helped to assess the effectiveness of nutrition education on improving
the knowledge and dietary practices of hypertensive patients.
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Hypertension is a common public health problem in developing countries. It leads to
further complications such as coronary heart disease, stroke and renal disorder. The main reason
is unawareness, poor dietary habits and worsened lifestyle in hypertensive patients. Nutritional
education at the right time may prevent other risk factors associated with hypertension.
Nutrition education have a positive impact on dietary practices of hypertensive patients
for secondary prevention.
A total of 200 hypertensive patients was purposively selected for this study. The willing
patients was informed about the purpose of study and consent was taken. The pretesting of the
hypertensive patients was administered about their usual dietary habits through questionnaire,
Food Frequency Questionnaire and 24-hour dietary recall. A total of 60 hypertensive patients
came with chronic diseases so they were excluded from the Research. Lessons and handouts on
nutrition education were given to the patients for a period of four weeks (1 month). After
completion of one month of nutrition education, post-testing was administered through filling up
of the same Questionnaire, Food Frequency Questionnaire and 24-hour dietary recall to assess
the improvement in dietary habits of hypertensive patients and results were calculated.
SPSS v. 21 was used for the compilation and analysis. Wilcoxon signed ranked test and
Paired t-test was applied to analyze the effectiveness of nutritional education on dietary habits of
hypertensive patients. Level of significance was p ≤ 0.05.
The present study helped to assess the effectiveness of nutrition education on improving
the knowledge and dietary practices of hypertensive patients.
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