The Role of the Nurse in Raising Patients’ Health Awareness to Prevent Chronic Diseases

Abstract

The goal of the current study is to know the role of the nurse in educating patients to prevent chronic diseases, to know the type of health information that the nurse provides to patients, the importance of health awareness to prevent chronic diseases. The questionnaire was created electronically via the Google Drive program, and then 750 questionnaires were distributed via mobile phone via the program. Social networking (the targets are residents of the cities of Mecca and Taif, aged between 25-55 years, men and women). 740 responses were obtained from people via Google Drive. It is concluded that , the role of the nurse is important in promoting health awareness for patients to prevent chronic diseases, as it is very important in delivering health information to patients that is useful to them, by taking direct advice and instructions from the treating physician, and based on his orders.