Background:Hypertension is one of the leading causes of death in developed and developing countries that need urgent strategies to implement interventions.Appropriate lifestyle modification practices are the corner st...Background:Hypertension is one of the leading causes of death in developed and developing countries that need urgent strategies to implement interventions.Appropriate lifestyle modification practices are the corner stone of the prevention and control.Objective:To assess lifestyle modification practices and associated factors among hypertensive patients.Methods:A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted among hypertensive patients from 1 April to 30 April 2019.Simple random sampling was used to select the study subjects.Data were entered to EpiData 3.1 and exported to Statistical Package for Social Sciences,version 25.0,for analysis.A binary logistic regression analysis was performed to determine predictors of lifestyle modifications among hypertensive patients.Results:The findings of this study revealed that the level of lifestyle modification practice was 79(39.5%).This finding is very low,and it has a significant effect on the management of hypertensive disorders and hypertension-related acute and chronic complications.Ethnicity,family history of hypertension,and knowledge about hypertension were identified as predictors of lifestyle modification practice.Conclusions:In this study,lifestyle modification practice is low(about 40%),but scientifically,almost all hypertensive patients on follow-up should practice lifestyle modification modalities.展开更多
Professor Lan Ws meta-research on pedagogy and education in Return to Breakthrough-An Outline of Life and Practice Pedagogy puts forward the problems of what pedagogy is and what education is,reflects on the problems ...Professor Lan Ws meta-research on pedagogy and education in Return to Breakthrough-An Outline of Life and Practice Pedagogy puts forward the problems of what pedagogy is and what education is,reflects on the problems of contemporary education,and proposes that education should return to its root,which lies in the traditional Chinese problems of education and adults as well as education and life.This paper attempts to clarify the problems raised by Professor Lan Ye and reflect about the problems of contemporary education under meta-education as well as the role and significance of the traditional Chinese educational spirit for contemporary education.展开更多
文摘Background:Hypertension is one of the leading causes of death in developed and developing countries that need urgent strategies to implement interventions.Appropriate lifestyle modification practices are the corner stone of the prevention and control.Objective:To assess lifestyle modification practices and associated factors among hypertensive patients.Methods:A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted among hypertensive patients from 1 April to 30 April 2019.Simple random sampling was used to select the study subjects.Data were entered to EpiData 3.1 and exported to Statistical Package for Social Sciences,version 25.0,for analysis.A binary logistic regression analysis was performed to determine predictors of lifestyle modifications among hypertensive patients.Results:The findings of this study revealed that the level of lifestyle modification practice was 79(39.5%).This finding is very low,and it has a significant effect on the management of hypertensive disorders and hypertension-related acute and chronic complications.Ethnicity,family history of hypertension,and knowledge about hypertension were identified as predictors of lifestyle modification practice.Conclusions:In this study,lifestyle modification practice is low(about 40%),but scientifically,almost all hypertensive patients on follow-up should practice lifestyle modification modalities.
文摘Professor Lan Ws meta-research on pedagogy and education in Return to Breakthrough-An Outline of Life and Practice Pedagogy puts forward the problems of what pedagogy is and what education is,reflects on the problems of contemporary education,and proposes that education should return to its root,which lies in the traditional Chinese problems of education and adults as well as education and life.This paper attempts to clarify the problems raised by Professor Lan Ye and reflect about the problems of contemporary education under meta-education as well as the role and significance of the traditional Chinese educational spirit for contemporary education.
