Work Place Health Promotion among Supporting Staff with Hypertension and/or Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus at Rajya Vokkaligara Sangha, Bengaluru

Workplace health promotion is defined as prevention, minimization and elimination of health hazards and also maintaining, promoting working ability. Diabetes mellitus and Hypertension are chronic health illness which is increasingly becoming a major health issue in the present society. It is often reported that only half of the patients with chronic conditions adhere to the medications properly. It requires patient education to accomplish adequate control and avoid adverse health consequences

To promote health at workplace by improving medication adherence for Supporting staff with history of hypertension and Type 2 diabetes mellitus by counselling aided Patient information leaflet.

A prospective interventional study was conducted among the supporting staff of Rajya Vokkaligara Sangha, Bengaluru for a period of 6 months. A total of 26 patients, were enrolled based on the inclusion criteria. Their blood pressure and random blood sugar level was measured in each follow-up. Four follow-ups were conducted every 15 days once. The patients were interviewed using MARS and were counselled. Obtained data was entered into MS Excel sheet and analysed. The statistical analysis was done using Chi square test with p<0.05.

It was found that adherence level was low in the case of test group MARS scale presented only 30.76% of subjects were adherent.. Fourth follow-up showed 83.33% of increased adherence level. Chi-square test value was 0.0016 (p<0.05) results statistically proved that there is significant difference in the adherence level between the follow-up. By the end of the study, there was a significant decrease in meanSBP, meanDBP; and RBS levels.

Thereby, by educating the participants about their understanding of the illness, importance of adhering to the medications, life style modifications and dietary recommendation, there will be gradual increase in the adherence rate.