Elias Ezo, Biruk Gashawbeza
Determinants of Overweight Among Primary School Children in Arba Minch Town, Southern Ethiopia, 2021
Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics
previous chinese studies focused prevalence influential factors hypertension however little known selfcare literacy quality life among bai older adults hypertension purpose research explore associations among healthpromoting lifestyle selfcare agency healthrelated quality life bai ethnic older patients hypertension well related factors hypertension selfcare abilities total 472 bai ethnic hypertension older adults aged 60 enrolled study voluntarily 5 rural communities bai ethnic group exercise selfcare agency scale escas employed assess selfcare ability hypertension subjects healthpromoting lifestyle profile iihplpii utilized evaluate health behavior mos 36item short form health survey sf36 chosen assess hrqol studying population descriptive analyses including demographic characteristics socioeconomic status clinical characteristics stratified bai hypertensive elderly pearson correlation analysis model used examine associations among healthpromoting lifestyle selfcare agency healthrelated quality life bai ethnic elderly hypertension hplpii esca hrqol levels subjects low mean hplp esca scores significant statistical variance among different age groups significant statistical differences found bai elderly subjects domain pf ph well overall score sf36all p 001 6064 year group highest score three domains sf36 age groups sf36 scores positively associated hplp esca levels hplpii esca hrqol levels bai subjects poor bai ethnic hypertensive elderly hrqol scores subjects positively connected hplpii esca abilities attention paid lifestyle healthy behaviors selfcare abilities improvements enhance better hrqol bai minority older adults hypertension