This study was conducted to identify the effects of the comprehensive nursing aided self-help program for hypertensives. The program educates hypertensives in community areas about blood pressure, self-care, health promoting behaviors, and life satisfaction. For this purpose a one group time series design was used. Sixteen subjects were evaluated from S Community Health center of B city. Self-help programs developed by the author were given to the subjects. The program consisted of group education on hypertension and self-care including blood pressure self-monitoring, recording of self-care activities, and encouraging and reinforcing self-help. The whole program was carried out from October to December in 2002. Data was analyzed by repeated measure ANOVA, and post-hoc Turkey. The results were as follows： There were significant relationships between changes in systolic pressure(F＝10.638. P=.000), diastolic pressure(F＝6.783. p＝.013), self-care(F＝13.506. p＝.000), and health promoting behavior(F＝9.067. p＝.001) at the 6th week and the 9th week. There were no significant relationships between changes in life satisfaction at the 6th week or 9th week. From these results, it can be concluded that the self-help program is an effective nursing strategy to promote self-care of hypertensives in community areas.