Impact of the virtual anti-hypertensive educational campaign towards knowledge,attitude,and practice of hypertension management during the COVID-19 pandemic

作     者：Andrianto Andrianto Meity Ardiana Ricardo Adrian Nugraha Alqi Yutha Bagus Putra DharmaKhrisna Tony Santoso Putra Achmad Rizal Shahab Henny Andrianto Irawati Hajar Kikuko A'rofah Nurlina Puspitasari Maltadilla Ratu Hajjrin 

作者机构：Department of Cardiology and Vascular MedicineUniversitas AirlanggaSurabaya 60286East JavaIndonesia 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Cardiology》 (世界心脏病学杂志（英文版）（电子版）)

年 卷 期：2022年第14卷第12期

页      面：626-639页

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Hypertension Awareness Knowledge Attitude Practice Public health 

摘      要：BACKGROUND One of the efforts to reduce hypertension rates in the community is through an educational campaign that refers to the NIH s National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute curricula or abbreviated as ***,during the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)pandemic,one of the hardest hit areas is health promotion,and there is a significant obstacle regarding the most effective way to transfer knowledge,attitude and practice towards society without transmitting the *** To evaluate the impact of the virtual anti-hypertensive educational campaign towards knowledge,attitude,and the practice of hypertension management in the primary care setting during the COVID-19 *** An online action research with a randomized crossover-controlled trial using a pretest-posttest control group *** study was conducted in October 2020-April *** population in this study were patients with hypertension who were treated in the Mojo primary health care setting.A purposive sampling technique was done to receive 110 participants using an online questionnaire and invitation *** A total of 110 participants were included in the analysis,55 in the intervention group and 55 in the control *** the Virtual Anti-Hypertensive Educational Campaign implementation,the only parameter that showed significant improvement was knowledge and attitude(P0.001).There is no significant change in the practice parameters(P=0.131).CONCLUSION The Virtual Anti-Hypertensive Educational Campaign implementation in our study population seems to be effective to improve knowledge and attitude of participants,nevertheless,this program seems to be ineffective to improve the practice of hypertension management aspect in *** study with longer durations and more comprehensive programs need to be done to scrutinize the clinical impact of this program nationwide.