Abstract:
Abstract
Background: Hypertension by its nature needs lifelong treatment with medication and control of it. One factor that determines successful treatment is of family support. Family support is important in the long-term management of hypertension, which requires a life-long change in the lifestyle of the affected person. As many literatures’ showed that family support has important role in hypertension management. The assessment of magnitude of family support and associated factors among hypertensive patient helps to health care stakeholders to enhance participation of family support in the treatment of hypertension.
Objective: - The aim of this study was to assess level of family support and its associated factors among adult hypertensive patient on follow up at public Hospitals in Ambo Town, Ethiopia, 2025.
Methods: - A facility-based cross-sectional study design was used. The simple random sampling technique was applied to select study participants. The target population of the study was adult hypertensive patients on follow up at Hospitals of Ambo town. The data was collected from May, 2023 to June, 2023. Data was collected using interviewer administered questionnaire. It was checked for its completeness and entered to Epi-data version 4.6. The result was analyzed by SPSS version 27.0.1. The association between independent variables and dependent variable was determined by using binary logistic regression and further multiple logistic regressions with 95% confidence interval (CI) and P values < 0.05 considered statistically significant and the result was analyzed by SPSS version 27.0.1 and descriptive analysis was done and presented in graphs, frequencies and tables.
Result- The study included 358 respondents with 96.75% response rate. One hundred twenty seven (35.5%) have strong family support in management of hypertension. The study consisted of 207 (58%) females. The mean age of the respondents was 54.63 ± 12.9 years which of the respondents (42.2%) were in 40 - 59 age groups. Out of the respondents 158 (44.1%) were protestant by religion and 224 (62.6%) were married. Out of the respondents 130 (36.3%) attended primary school. Out of the respondents 136 (38%) were farmer and majority of respondents 218(60.9) were Rural residents. Age, gender and education level have significant association with family support.
Conclusion:-According to this study revealed that the associated factors have the significant proportion of patients have poor family support which was linked to poor follow up to treatment
