Knowledge, Attitude and Practices and Risk Factors of Hypertension among Hypertensive Patients in ALbagair ALgidami village, EL kamleen locality , Gezira state, Sudan (2015)

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Hypertension remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality .This is a descriptive analytic cross-sectional community based study to determine the Knowledge, attitudes and practices and risk factors of hypertension among hypertensive patients in ALbagir ALgidami village. A structured questionnaire which sought information on socio-demographics, knowledge, attitude and practice of hypertension diseases was used to obtain data. Blood pressure (BP) was measured using a digital sphygmomanometer .A digital weighing scale was used for determination of body weight and a traditional cloth tape measure was used for measuring height, for calculation of body mass index. This study included 180 hypertensive patients whose ages were 18 years and older, 126 female and 54 male ,Majority of patients148 ( 82.2%) were more than50 years age and about (56.7%) patients were from moderate Socio-economic class ( income between 1000-2000 ), Most of the patients123 (68.3%) had no occupation ( housewife 116 (64.4 %). About one forth are illiterate 25.6%, 47.2%are either primary or intermediate education, 131 (38.53%) patients had another health problems. Near half of patients 80 (44.4%) had Diabetes Mellitus, 161 (89.4%) patients had the family history of Hypertension, 70% of patients had BMI more or equal to 25 kg/m2 (over weight and obese) and Most of them are females and had poor control of Blood Pressure, Near half of patients had uncontrolled of systolic and diastolic blood pressure (52.4%) – (51.1%) respectively. In general about (42.8%) of all patients in this study showed moderate knowledge towards hypertension disease (symptoms, complications and risk factors).In spite of this moderate knowledge more than half of the patients had good attitude (58.3%) and practice (58.3%) towards their disease, and most of them had good controlled Blood pressure. Most of patients with poor knowledge, attitude and practice also had poor control of systolic and diastolic Blood pressure. The study recommended promotion of services for hypertensive patients and health education which should include risk factors about diet, exer

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05913e1c-b2ec-4971-a4db-c833c89d0148

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Crawler

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الرسائل العلمية

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Knowledge, Attitude and Practices and Risk Factors of Hypertension among Hypertensive Patients in ALbagair ALgidami village, EL kamleen locality , Gezira state, Sudan (2015)

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الإشراف

ماجدة الهادي أحمد يوسف, محمد المختار محمد

الإعداد

فاطمة حسن أحمد عبدالله

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