Health Promotion Program via Social Media for Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Abstract

To date, hypertension and diabetes mellitus are serious health problems because advance technology has led to consumerism of lifestyle transformation especially mobile smartphone. Social media is very popular now, so health promotion program via social media is interesting. The aims of this study were to synthesize and analyze the results of health promotion program via social media. It was divided into two phases; phase 1) the program development by literature reviewing was performed. Phase 2) quasi-experimental research (one group, pre-test and post-test) was conducted. The 31 volunteers were included in this program with 5 days by face to face meetings and further 28 days via social media. The finding showed that health literacy, attitude and self-care behaviors of participants were improved significantly by sign test (p-value < 0.01) before and after program implementation. The suggestion is health promoting program via social media with the principles of transformative learning used to raise awareness, change attitude and behavior to good behavior in lifestyle diseases should be considered.