The self-instructional module had a positive impact on knowledge for stroke prevention amongst hypertensive patients in selected hospitals

Abstract

While stroke is an important factor for mortality and morbidity all around the world, the major predisposing factor to stroke is hypertension. The present study was designed to assess the impact of Self Instructional Module on the knowledge of hypertensive patients to stroke prevention for the selected demographic variables. As we assumed that the hypertensive subjects may develop complications leading to stroke, the use of Self Instructional Module was expected to help hypertensive patients to gain adequate knowledge and instill attitude for stroke prevention thereby to inculcate stroke prevention practices. Thus, the study adopted a conceptual framework developed by the investigator to use the Self Instructional Module on prevention of stroke for scoring the improvement in performance on pre- and post-assessments for knowledge amongst hypertensive patients. The resultant data analyzed by Wilcox-Signed Rank test and Kruskal-Wallis test revealed that post-test had significant improvement in scores for knowledge for stroke prevention among hypertensive patients. Hence, this research concluded that the use of Self Instructional Module is effective in improving the knowledge for stroke prevention in hypertensive subjects.