Risk Behaviors of Stroke among People with Hypertension in Seimahapot Hospital, Seimahapot District, Prachinburi Province.

Abstract

              This  research  aimed  to  study   risk   behaviors  of  stroke  among  people  with  hypertension in  Seimahapot  hospital ,  Seimahapot  district , Prachinburi  province ,  compare  different  personal  factors  affecting the sample’s  risk  behavior  of  stroke.  The participants were  297 people with hypertension  and  no  history  of stroke who followed up at  hypertension clinic at Seimahapot hospital, by simple random sampling. The instrument for data collection was questionnaire.  The statistics applied in the process were  percentage  for  personal  factors  ,  arithmetic  mean  and  standard deviation for level of life quality promotion of agers ,  t-test for two factors of independent variable ,  one way analysis of variance (One-way ANOVA). The  result  showed  that  hypertensive   patients  have  overall  stroke  risk behaviors.  in the moderate level 85.49% and in the high level 14.81%  The comparative on risk behaviors of stroke among people with  hypertension in Seimahapot  hospital , Seimahapot  district ,  Prachinburi  province ,  in terms sex ,  age found that there were different as statistically significance at .05.