Analysis of the Current Status of Disease Uncertainty and Influencing Factors in Patients with Hypertension in Community
Du Jiahua
Abstract：Objective:To investigate the current status of disease uncertainty of patients with hypertension in 3 communities ,and to ana-lyze the influencing factors .Methods:There were 103 patients with hypertension in 3 communities selected by convenience sampling .The questionnaire was used to assess the uncertainty of the disease .Results:These patients′the disease uncertainty score was ( 87.16 ± 10.03),and was positively correlated with education background ,family income per capita per month,payment style of medical expenses , social support and negatively coping with uncertainty in illness (P<0.01,P<0.05).Conclusion:The hypertension patients′disease un-certainty in the community is at a high level .Education,family income,payment of medical expenses ,social support,negative coping strate-gy are the main influence factors of disease uncertainty .Therefore,it is suggested that doctors and nurses should pay attention to the influ-ence of uncertainty of disease on community hypertension patients ,and take high quality nursing services to help patients reduce the uncer-tainty of the disease ,thereby improving the quality of life of patients.
Keywords：CommunityHypertensionDisease uncertaintyQuality of life
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 22-24 )