European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

THE IMPACT OF SELF-CARE ON REDUCTION OF COSTS IN PEOPLE WITH HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE IN CLIENTS OF YASOUJ IMAM SAJAD HOSPITAL HEART WARD IN 2015

Abdollah Hekmatifar, Rahim Ostvar* and Parviz Aghayii Barzabad

ABSTRACT

This study has been conducted with the aim of examining the impact of self-care in reduction of health costs of patients with high blood pressure in clients of Yasouj Imam Sajad Hospital heath ward in 2015. This study is a double- blinded randomized clinical trial. Sampling was performed as all counting and 120 persons were selected in two test and control groups for performing the study and after collecting data, statistical analysis was done by SPSS software. The results showed that in significance level (P<0.05), trainings has considerably increased self-care among the statistical samples from 15 to 34%. Concerning determining direct costs of high blood pressure , the results showed that with performed studies in significance level (P<0.05), direct costs have reduced from 69% to 54%. As to determining indirect costs of high blood pressure, the results showed that by performed trainings in significance level (P<0.05), direct costs have reduced from 29% to 17%. As regards the impact of self-care on reduction of patients with high blood pressure, the Fisher test results showed that this difference is significant in significance level (P<0.05).

Keywords: blood pressure, self-care, direct costs, indirect costs and hospital.