TY - JOUR JF - Iran-J-Health-Educ-Health-Promot JO - Iran J Health Educ Health Promot VL - 2 IS - 1 PY - 2014 Y1 - 2014/6/01 TI - The Impact of an Educational Intervention Based On PRECEDE - PROCEED Model on Lifestyle Changes among Hypertension Patients TT - تأثیر مداخله آموزشی بر اساس الگوی پرسید-پروسید بر تغییر سبک زندگی بیماران مبتلا به پرفشاری خون N2 - Background and objective: Hypertension is constantly increasing in different societies. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of educational intervention based on PRECEDE – PROCEED model on the lifestyle changes among hypertension patients in rural health centers of the Jahrom county. Methods: In this experimental study, 40 patients were in the intervention group and 40 patients in the control group. Educational intervention was designed based on PRECEDE – PROCEED model and implemented on the intervention group. The instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire including questions on demographic characteristics and PRECEDE - PROCEED constructs. Data were gathered before and 2 months after the intervention. Data were analyzed using independent sample t-test, paired sample t-test and chi-square test using SPSS19 software. Results: After the intervention, the intervention group than the control group scores of predisposing factors (knowledge and attitudes), reinforcing factors and enabling factors increased significantly among intervention group (p SP - 17 EP - 27 AU - Hosseini, Fatemehsadat AU - Farshidi, Hossein AU - Aghamolaei, Teamur AU - Madani, Abdolhossain AU - Ghanbarnejad, Amin AD - Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences KW - Education KW - PRECEDE – PROCEED model KW - hypertension KW - lifestyle UR - http://journal.ihepsa.ir/article-1-124-en.html ER -