SELF MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE REPORTED BY HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS WITH CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

Abstract

Background: Patients living with cardiovascular diseases have different ways to solve their various problems. Self management was being a part of strategies in maintaining their health status. Knowledge of self management was important in changing patient’s behaviour.

Aims: This study aimed to identify self management knowledge reported by hospitalized patients with cardiovascular disease.

Method: This was a descriptive quantitative study. Eighty inpatients with cardiovascular disease were recruited by accidental sampling. Self administered questionnaire were used to measure the knowledge of self management and demographic characteristic in hospitalized patients with cardiovascular diseases. Data analysis were used Chi-square test.

Findings: The results showed that generally hospitalized patients with cardiovascular disease have high knowledge of self management. But in specific knowledge such as salt restriction, glucose target, side effect while patients stop to smoking and ways to overcome these side effect. The further analyses showed that there were no a significant relationship between demographic characteristic (educational level, long of time in suffering illness, participating in educational programme) and knowledge of self management in hospitalized patients with cardiovascular disease (p > 0,05).

Conclusion:Majorities of hospitalized patients with cardiovascular disease have known the information related their illness, but for more specific behaviour knowledge was limited. Improving behaviour knowledge of self management was essential point to maintain health status of patients with cardiovascular disease.