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Journal of Nursing and Health Studies
ISSN: 2574-2825
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Nursing Diagnosis &
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troke is the leading cause of death in Thailand even though the national
program for prevention of chronic non communicable diseases was
implemented for many years but it is not effective so that innovation must be
continues not only for treatments but also for service system. Village health
volunteers (VHVs) are provided basic health care services as one of the key
success of health care improvement in Thailand. This cross sectional study
aimed to examine the results of one year follow up for stroke risk after VHVs
training to continued health promotion among villagers who are at risk to
stroke. The sample is of 50 villagers (1 drop out) who are at risk, and 10 VHVs
in the village. The methodology includes Suranaree Stroke Risk Tool (SSRT)
as an assessment tool which classifieds risk factors of pre-stroke to guide
for significant implementation, its reliability was 0.914. SSRT was employed
to collect data after a year of VHVs who were trained to modify simple health
care for the risk group.
Results & Conclusion:
There were 50% of VHVs continuously monitoring
the risk group practice healthy behavior, 3 of them (6%) were part of local
government committee. There were 48 villagers or 96% to change to healthy
behaviors; increase regular exercises, decrease BP p<0.05, BS, weight, waist,
salt, cholesterols, sweet consumption including giving up smoking and drinking
alcohol. Only 2 of them (4%) were uncontrolled and referred to recheck.
These studies reveal that specific training of VHVs by employed SSRT as a
tool to guided self-care promotion among risk people in a village guide them
changing their health behaviors and none of them developed stroke within a
year follow up. They also suggest the local government committee to build
health promotion environment in the village.
Biography
Patama Vajamun has graduated doctoral degree in 2003 From
Mahidol University in Thailand. She worked as APN in adult and
elderly care for 9 years, then a Faculty Member of Suranaree
University of Technology. Her specialization area is chronic
illness care.
patvajaph@sut.ac.thResults of enhanced VHVs to promote health behaviors to
reduce stroke risk by applied SSRT focus on specific risk
factors among the people who live in Nonglak Chumpong
district of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
Patama Vajamun and Naruemol Singha-Dong
Institute of Nursing Suranaree University of Technology Ratchasima, Thailand
Patama Vajamun et al., J Nurs Health Stud 2018 Volume: 3
DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C4-011