Abstract
This Randomized controlled trial was conducted over seventy hypertensive adult over three months, from 1st June 2018 to 30th Oct
2018. The volunteers aged 30-60 years attending regularly outpatient department with systolic > 130 mm hg, diastolic > 80mm hg
were selected and assigned into 2 groups, i.e. Intervention and control, by simple random lottery method. For twelve weeks, only
intervention group were given DASH education. Both groups were checked for DASH knowledge, attitude, and systolic diastolic
blood pressure, before and after education session. Before and after intervention session, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood
pressure, knowledge and attitude of controlled group remained insignificant. Significant role of educational intervention was
concluded on systolic blood pressure, diastolic, dietary approach to stop hypertension knowledge and dietary approach to stop
hypertension attitude among hypertensive patients
Nazia Yousef, Muhammad Hussain, Sofia Kausar, Hajra Ahmed, Zaheer Ahmed. (2020) Dietary educational intervention to control hypertension in hypertensive adult , Isra Medical Journal, Volume 12, Issue 1.
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