Exploring the type of social support available to aged male hypertensive clients in Ghana
Article Category: Original article
Pubblicato online: 03 ago 2022
Pagine: 225 - 231
Ricevuto: 21 nov 2021
Accettato: 27 gen 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2022-0024
Parole chiave
© 2022 James Konir Zufaa et al., published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Objective
To explores the social support available to aged hypertensive male clients in a municipality in Ghana.
Methods
The inclusion criteria were as follows: age ≥60 years and are known hypertensive patients. Data were collected from 186 selected aged male hypertensive patients for 3 months. The questionnaire was self-developed and open-ended. The data were processed and analyzed using SPSS version 23. Some of the variables were subjected to statistical tests and ranks in the order of importance to respondents. The enrolled respondents were allowed to participate in the study after their informed consent was obtained. It was evident that respondents do not obtain much support or help in taking care of their condition.
Results
The result revealed that the repondents has no support to help take care of their condition as evident by the responses in the study. The scores on average mean for some variables are (AM = 2.25, SD = 0.381) more than the test value of 2.50. Some of these supports were on feeding support (M = 3.97, SD = 0.278,
Conclusions
Based on the finding that certain forms of support were lacking, the study concludes that steps undertaken by the government, community, religious bodies, and family toward improving these supports can be of immense help for aged male hypertensive patients living in the Ejura-Sekyedumase municipality.