Study design and procedure
cancer, hypertension, hypertensive, diabetes
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, CANCER, CHRONIC DISEASES, HYPERTENSION, DIABETES
This study was a quasi-experimental design. It was conducted on 118 hypertensive patients referred to a health center in Kermanshah, Iran from October to February 2021. Patients were selected using convenient sampling method based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria and randomly divided into the intervention (n = 59) and control (n = 59) groups. For this study, 118 individuals were allocated into two groups using block randomization with the assistance of random allocation software (
When nThe inclusion criteria were patients aged over 30 years with reading and writing literacy, who have been diagnosed as hypertensive patients in the health center but failed to control their hypertension (systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg). All patients took medication for their hypertension. The exclusion criteria included people with underlying chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer or pregnant women.