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The effect of personal space on blood pressure in the Turkish woman
Esin Cetinkaya-Uslusoy1, Emel Tasci-Duran1
1Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey.
Objective:
To explore the effect of personal space on blood pressure using the Giger and Davidhizar transcultural assessment model.
Methods:
The quasi-experimental study was carried out in a maternity hospital located in Isparta, Turkey, from March to July 2014, and comprised all the women hospitalised in the obstetrics and gynaecology clinic. The blood pressure measurements were performed by two nursing students; one male and one female. The questionnaire was composed by the researchers in reference to the sub-dimensions of the Giger and Davidhizar transcultural assessment model.
Results:
There were 115 women with a mean age of 26.50±4.86 years. Overall, 81(70.4%) patients were members of a nuclear family, and 43(37.4%) were primary school graduates. There was no significant difference in the diastolic blood pressure values measured by female and male students (p>0.05), but systolic blood pressure values measured by the female and male students were significantly different (p<0.05)..
Conclusions:
Female patients had increased systolic blood pressure values when they were measured by male nursing students and the increase was correlated with ethnicity and income level.
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