Practical Study On Improving The Self-health Management Ability Of Elderly Hypertension Patients

With the accelerating pace of China’s population,the number of elderly people with chronic diseases is increasing.Hypertension is not only a potential inducing factor for many chronic diseases,but also a chronic disease with the largest proportion of diseases among the elderly.Individuals with good self-health management ability can maintain their physical function in a relatively healthy state,so it is particularly urgent to advocate the elderly hypertension patients to establish the concept of self-health management and improve the self-health management ability of the elderly patients.The purpose of the article is through the questionnaire survey,half structure interview survey method and social learning theory,energy theory of social work professional theory,the X community elderly patients with hypertension in self health management problems and demand analysis,using one of the change of human health related behavior pattern joint social work professional method of social work method,intervention services.First of all,the author from X community elderly hypertension patients’ health management needs,the survey found that X community elderly hypertension patients have self health management consciousness is weak,hypertension knowledge awareness is not high,poor health beliefs for disease prevention and control,informal social support network is not sound,lack of positive social support.Secondly,through the results of the preliminary investigation,12 elderly hypertensive patients were selected as the research objects,and the experimental group(N=6)and the control group(N=6)were designed.The experimental group carried out six group activities once a week under the guidance of knowledge and communication mode,while the control group did not do any intervention.Finally,process evaluation and outcome evaluation were conducted,and it was found that elderly hypertensive patients had improved their self-health management ability in knowing beliefs.This paper further refined the research object,reducing the scope of "patients with chronic diseases" to "elderly patients with hypertension".In terms of intervention methods,it also tries to give full play to the discipline advantages of a scientific helping major,and integrates the discipline into the social work practical skills of the group with knowledge,trust and practice health change mode.However,due to the limited number of the respondents and time and the poor representativeness of the sample,the survey results may be regional and limited,and the research results also have certain limitations,which need to be further enriched and developed in the future practical work.