Self-care practice among adult hypertensive patients at ambulatory clinic of tertiary teaching Hospital in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of study participants at follow-up clinic

Table 2 Clinical characteristics of study participants at follow-up clinic

Table 3 Therapeutic life change and self-care practice-related information of study participants at follow-up clinic

Fig. 1 Level of self-care practice among study participants at follow-up clinic

Table 4 Factors associated with self-care practice of study participants at follow-up clinic

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