Impart of Nurse-Led Intervention on Knowledge and Lifestyle Modification Practice Towards Prevention of Hypertension Among Adult Residents of Ogbomoso, Oyo State (Published)
This study adopted quasi-experimental design to examine impart of Nurse-led intervention on Knowledge and Lifestyle modification towards prevention of hypertension among adult residents in Ogbomoso, Oyo State. The sample of 288 was selected using two-stage sampling techniques. The study obtained data from participants during pre and post-intervention using structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using, Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 27. Descriptive statistics of frequency and percentages as well as graph was employed to analyze data. Findings revealed that, 33.2% of the participants had good knowledge during pre-intervention, while 69.7% had good knowledge during post-intervention. Also, 32.4% of the participants had good lifestyle modification practices during pre-intervention, while majority (72.9%) had good lifestyle modification practices during post-intervention. The study concluded that, knowledge and practice of lifestyle modification among participants was better during post-intervention. The study concluded that, strategic designed health education is imperative to improve lifestyle modification towards controling hypertension prevalence.
Keywords: Hypertension, Intervention, Knowledge, Prevention, lifestyle modification
Effects of Nutrition Education among Pregnant Women using Fruits and Vegetables for the achievement of MDG5 in Odogbolu LGA, Ogun State (Published)
Background: Nutrition education being a component of health education is propitious to create awareness on how to source, prepare, combine and use food resources for promoting good health among all groups of human beings; especially pregnant women who need adequate nutrition for their physiological needs and improve the health of both the mother and fetus. Studies have suggested that women have low dietary intake of fruits and vegetables. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a framework globally agreed for measuring development, progress, and poverty reduction through focusing efforts on achieving significant measureable improvement in people’s lives. One of the components of MDG5 is nutrition in pregnancy; this component is the main focus of this study. Method: a quasi-experimental study for quantitative method adopting pre-and post test control experimental analysis was used while 194 pregnant women were purposively selected from 11 randomly selected antenatal clinics in Odogbolu local government area to participate. The nutrition intervention was for 3 months. FGD together with structured-validated questionnaire administered before and after the intervention were used to collect data. ANCOVA was used to test the two hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level.Result: There were significant effects of the intervention on the knowledge (F (2.174) = 1554.466, P <.05) and attitude (F (2.134) = 19.866, P <.05) of the women on fruits and vegetables consumption. The findings revealed a positive effect of the intervention; the participants were relatively aware of the importance of fruit and vegetables consumption in pregnancy after the intervention. Conclusion: The nutrition education intervention appears to have changed the attitude of pregnant women after the post test evaluation. Pregnant women apparently consumed more fruits and vegetables than they were doing before the intervention. Therefore, intensive health education should continuously be given to pregnant women on the value of fruit and vegetable.
Keywords: Education, Intervention, Nutrition, Pregnant Women, Vegetables