A descriptive study to assess the prevalence of hypertension and mental health status of known hypertensive individuals of age 40 to 80 years at nangal Pannua Village of Amritsar District, 2018

Over the last decade, the global burden of hypertension has increased for the people especially in rural area. Moreover, hypertension is at the root cause of cognitive decline. Patients with chronic conditions like hypertension may experience many negative emotions which increase their risk for the development of mental health disorders particularly anxiety and depression. This increase in the prevalence rate of hypertension and its affect on the mental health status means that health care team need to be prepared to recognize these conditions in order to refer these cases to the appropriate health care resources. A quantitative research approach and descriptive research design was used and the research setting was in the Nangal Pannua village of Amritsar district. Total 72 known hypertensive individuals of age 40-80 years were selected by non-probability purposive sampling technique. Self Reporting Questionnare was used to evaluate the mental health status of subjects. Results depicted that prevalence of hypertension in Nangal Pannua was 6.61%. 08(11.11%) known hypertensive subjects were severely prone to mental illness, 35(48.61%) were moderately prone to mental illness, 29(40.28%) were not prone to mental illness. Hence, it was inferred that known hypertensive individuals of age 40-80 years had affected mental health status. This study can be done on large sample in different research settings in Urban area and a follow up study can be conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the health education.