Factors Predicting Self-Care Behaviors among Low Health Literacy Hypertensive Patients Based on Health Belief Model in Bushehr District, South of Iran

<table class="fixed-width table-group" id="tab2"><tr><td><table class="table"><colgroup><col style="width:10.19em"/><col style="width:6.33em"/></colgroup><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Self-care behavior</td><td class="align_center">Number (%)</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Medication adherence</td><td class="align_center">14 (9.2)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Eating a low-salt diet</td><td class="align_center">8 (5.3)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Physical activity</td><td class="align_center">29 (19.1)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Nonsmoking</td><td class="align_center">85 (55.9)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Alcohol abstinence</td><td class="align_center">120 (78.9)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Weight management</td><td class="align_center">41 (27.0)</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Self-care behaviors frequencies and percentages.</div>

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Table 2: Factors Predicting Self-Care Behaviors among Low Health Literacy Hypertensive Patients Based on Health Belief Model in Bushehr District, South of Iran 

Table 2 | Factors Predicting Self-Care Behaviors among Low Health Literacy Hypertensive Patients Based on Health Belief Model in Bushehr District, South of Iran 