Psychosocial Burdens of Hypertensive Patients

Abstract

Hypertension is a major risk factor and antecedent of cardiovascular and end organ damage (myocardial
infarction, chronic kidney disease, descriptive design was conducted in Babylon city outpatients and
health centers to identify psycho-social burdens of patients with hypertension,A questionnaire including
demographic information and tow validated instruments assessing psychosocial burdens of hypertensive
patients,Data were collected through self-administration of questionnaire regarding the study,Data were
analyzed through applying descriptive analysis as frequency, percentage, The participants had 43-48 years
aged (45.1%) and were married (88.0%) with Not educated (52.2%) and (71.7%) were Male, the physical
indicators of sample weight 90 and more kg (50%) and height was 151-160 cm (38.6%) with normal BMI
(38.0%).
Patients face stress and each day and the lack of enough time to relax and the lack of a holiday in the middle
of the week, lead them to suffer various health problems such specially hypertension.