Sustaining Quality of Life with Education-Based Treatment for Hypertension Patients During COVID-19 Adaptation.

Abstract

Purpose: Determine the impact of education-based treatment on sustaining quality of life during COVID-19 adaptation. Designs: A randomized, 2-group, structured, holistic education-based intervention within eight weeks in preserving total quality of life (QoL) for hypertension patients with conventional care. Methods: Utilizing randomized controlled trials, 380 patients with hypertension are separated into two groups and evaluated. The patients are separated into two groups totaling 190 individuals each group. The intervention group is treated with a holistic education-based intervention. After two months, the EQ-5D-5L is used to evaluate the quality of life. Findings: The QoL pretest for the intervention group revealed that 25 (13.2%) patients had good QoL (Score = 1), while the QoL posttest revealed that the number of patients with good QoL had grown to 48 (25.3%). Using Kolmogorov-Smirnov for data analysis yielded non-normally distributed data. The p-value for the Wilcoxon signed ranks test is .001. Conclusions: The intervention group is better equipped to deal with COVID-19 and has a higher quality of life. Education-based hypertension treatment can sustain a high quality of life.