A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURETEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING CONTROL OFHYPERTENSION AMONG HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS ATTENDING MEDICAL OPD IN SELECTED HOSPITALS AT TUMKUR

Objectives: To assess the pretest knowledge regarding control of hypertension among hypertensive patients attending medical OPD in selected hospital tumakur. 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding control of hypertension. To find out the association between the pre test knowledge regarding control of hypertension among hypertensive patients. Methodology: A pre experimental one group pre-test post-test design and a quantitative research approach was carried out on 60pu OPD Patients selected by convenient sampling technique to test the effectiveness of structured teaching programme. the data was collected by using structured questionnaire consists of 32 items Result: the resent study evaluates and found that demographic variables majority 36% 56.7 of them were in the age group 60 and above age in years, majority 56.7% of them males, majority 96.7% of Hindu religion, majority 50% of Vegetarian. Conclusion: the data were analysed by applying descriptive and inferential statistics the result of the study indicate that after intervention there was an improvement in the knowledge and they gain good knowledge about, Hypertension ,analysis data shows highly significance difference found between pre-test and post-test knowledge score at the level of (P<0.05). the hypothesis is proved and accepted.