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Abstract Background and Aim: Hypertension is one of the most important risk factors in incidence heart and vessel diseases, heart and kidney disorders also Cerebral Vascular Accidence (CVA).According to the importance of this plan which is national and is being carried out nationwide , therefore , its stages is one of the most important parts of the plan. Consequently, this research has been done in order to analyze the caring quality and evaluation of the plan among health centers in Birjand. Materials and Methods: The recent study is an analytical cross-sectional of the caring quality assessment. The society being studied is consisted of all the urban and rural health centers of Birjand having patients of high blood pressure. By utilizing cluster sampling method, four health centers from four different rural districts of Birjand were chosen and then all the relating patients of high blood pressure were analyzed. The means of gathering data in this research was three structured questionnaires which were collected and completed by the health experts using observation- examination methods. These information and figures were analyzed using SPSS software, descriptive statistics, chi-square test, t- test and Pearson correlation coefficient. Results: The result of the research for assessing the quality of the plan showed that 35% of the high blood pressure patients were under complete control and 45% were introduced to a doctor. Also 40% were of the patients had not been looked after on time instead were being cared by a health worker and only 30% of those who were introduced to a doctor were looked after by the doctor of the health centre. Mean score of health workers knowledge was 13.12.86 out of 24 which reveals a moderate level of knowledge of the workers. Between the mean score and the sex of the worker was a significant difference (P<0.05). Also, the average age of the patients was 65.69±10.93 and their awareness mean score was 4.29±1.9 out of 15. We also observed a significant difference between the awareness score, level of literacy and the job of the patients (P<0.05). Conclusion: On the basis of the research results we can conclude that, at first the percentage of patients being cared has been low and in the second, sending patients to doctors and their care by the doctors has also been low. According to the awareness of the health workers and the patients from the plan having tutorial sessions for the health worker and necessary trainings for the patients via face to face group discussions or using educational pamphlets can be effective for enhancing the awareness level of them.

Keywords: Quality assessment; Hypertension control; Prevention; Birjand

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