Knowledge and Practice on Hypertension among the Rural Community With A View To Implement Need Based Interventional Package

Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 3

Abstract

Life style diseases are the major causes of mortality and morbidity in the present world. During the earlier days we thought that these killer diseases principally cramped in urban communities but statistics shows that it also be the foremost problem in the rural communities .In Kozhikode district among the people residing in the rural areas there is a sweeping increase in cerebrovascular and cardiovascular mortality and morbidity now a days and moreover 40-50% of the peoples were hypertensive .So the present study was done to assess the knowledge and practice on hypertension among the rural community in Kozhikode district with a view to implement need based interventional package.248 citizens with the diagnosis of hypertension were selected from Olavanna panchyath of Kozhikode district and the knowledge and practice were assessed with knowledge and practice questionnaires Among the rural communities only 5.2% of participants had adequate knowledge and merely 4% had adequate practice on hypertension . Among the participants 134 subjects had known history of hypertension but 114 subjects were newly diagnosed hypertension. 11.3% of the samples had history of cardiovascular diseases, 12% of the subjects had the history of cerebrovascular diseases. The study findings shows that the knowledge and practice of people those who are residing in the rural areas were inadequate ,so they require an interventional package based on their needs to perk up their knowledge and practice level on hypertension ,it may also reduce the cerebrovascular and cardiovascular mortality and morbidities in the rural locale.

Authors and Affiliations

Abhilash Venunathan, Dr. Reetha Ismail, Bijoy Philip

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  • EP ID EP436297
  • DOI 10.9790/1959-0703072528.
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Abhilash Venunathan, Dr. Reetha Ismail, Bijoy Philip (2018). Knowledge and Practice on Hypertension among the Rural Community With A View To Implement Need Based Interventional Package. IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science, 7(3), 25-28. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-436297