the impact of an educational program based on the basnef model on knowledge and self-care behaviors of patients with hypertension

Background: hypertension is an important health problem that can be controlled by self-care. objectives: the present study aimed to determine the impact of an educational program based (basnef) model on knowledge and self-care behaviors for hypertensive patients in bastak, iran. methods: this quasi-experimental study was performed on 180 patients with hypertension who were admitted to health centers ofthe bastak city. the participants were randomly assigned to intervention (n = 90) and control (n = 90) groups. data were collected using a questionnaire that had three sections of demographic information, knowledge, and basnef constructs. the questionnaires were completed before the intervention and two months after providing the intervention. after the pre-test, an appropriate educational intervention was designed and implemented only among the intervention group. to analyze the data, paired t-test, independent t-test, and chi-square tests were run by spss version 19. results: the mean age of the participants was 50.62  7.549 years. the results showed a statistically significant difference in the mean scores of attitudes, subjective norms, enabling factors, and self-care behaviors in the intervention group pre- and postintervention (p = 0.001). besides, it was found that enabling factors (0.311) play a significant role in predicting self-care behaviors. conclusions: the results of this study support the effectiveness of educational interventions in raising awareness and improving self-care behaviors in patients with hypertension using the basnef model. therefore, with an emphasis on enabling factors, the basnef model can be used as a framework to developducational interventions for self-care.