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Volume 2
Journal of Molecular Cancer
Cancer & Primary Healthcare 2019
May 20-21, 2019
Cancer Research & Oncology
Primary Healthcare and Medicare Summit
May 20-21, 2019 | Rome, Italy
25
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Global Meet on
World Congress on
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Results of enhance VHVs to promote health behaviors to decrease stroke risk by applied
SSRT focus on specific risk factors among the people who live in Nonglak Chumpong
district Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
Patama Vajamun
Institute of Nursing Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand
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troke is the leading cause of death and handicap in Thailand even though the national chronic disease
control program was implemented for many years in contrast the problems continuously increasing
according to changing to elderly society. Thai VHVs are provided basic health care and health promotion
is one of the key success of health care improvement in Thailand. Methodology: 10 VHVs were trained for
changing health behaviors of villagers and how to use SUT Stroke Risk Tool (SSRT) to assessed and classified
risk factors of target group to guided individuals for changed their significant modifiable health behaviors.
50% of VHVs could encouraged 96% (48) of the risk group changed to healthy behaviors; increase regular
exercises, decrease BP, BS, weight, waist, cholesterols, salt, sweet, and alcohol consumption including gave up
smoking. Only 4% (2) of them were uncontrolled and referred to the hospital for health check up. It revealed
that specific training of VHVs by employed SSRT as a tool could increased healthy behaviors among people
who were at risk of stroke in Nonglak village and none of them developed stroke within a year follow up. So
that further study may be benefit in general population.
patvajaph@sut.ac.thJ Mol Cancer, Volume 2