Divya Krishnan, K P (2016) Effectiveness of agitation management strategy on blood pressure and stress among patients with hypertension admitted in Sree Mookambika Medical College Hospital, Kulasekharam. Masters thesis, Sree Mookambika College of Nursing, Kulasekharam.
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Abstract
Hypertension, elevated blood pressure, is a noteworthy public health concern worldwide clue to its significant contribution to the global health burden and its role as a prominent risk factor for development of number of disease processes. The negative impact of hypertension on health status is very clear, especially taking into account of disability, decreased quality of life and mortality associated with stroke and cardiovascular disease and organ failure. Non-pharmacological interventions also effective in treating essential hypertension. Agitation management strategy is a nonpharmacologic modalities and its a relaxation technique that reaches the body to respond verbal commands. These commands tell the body to relax and control breathing rate, blood pressure, and body temperature. It is known that regular practice of breathing exercise and pleasant visualization which helps to increase parasympathetic tone, decrease sympathetic activity, improve physical and mental health. This study under taken to assess the effectiveness of agitation management strategy on blood pressure and stress level among patients with Hypertension admitted in Sree Mookambika Medical College Hospital, Kulasekharam. The objective of the study is to determine the effectiveness of agitation management in reducing blood pressure and stress among hypertensive clients. The researcher adopted a quantitative approach with two group pretest post test design. The study subjects were 60 patients with Hypertension admitted in Sree Mookambika Medical College Hospital who were selected by purposive sampling technique. The data were collected from 60 patients, 30 were allotted in the experimental group and 30 in the control group. Pretest was conducted in experimental and control group on the first day using modified Vaughn’s tool. Agitation Management Strategy was demonstrated to the experimental group and asked them to perform 25 minutes twice daily. Post test was conducted to the experiment and control group on 7th day morning after the performance of Agitation management strategy by the experimental group. The collected data were analyzed based on the above mentioned objective using the descriptive and inferential statistics. The ‘t’ value for Comparing mean blood pressure was tabulated and found to be; t= 9.36 [p<0.05] on the 7th day for systolic blood pressure and t= 7.21 [p<0.05] 7th day for diastolic blood pressure. The study finding indicate that the Agitation Management Strategy is effective non pharmacologic measure to reduce hypertension.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Agitation Management Strategy ; blood pressure ; Hypertension ; Stress. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Medical Surgical Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Ramakrishnan J |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2017 11:57 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Dec 2018 04:27 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/2389 |
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