Knowledge and Practices on Prevention From Complications of Hypertension Among the Clients in Chitwan

Abstract

Hypertension is the fast emerging as the modern epidemic in the world. It contributes to the high mortality rate. Therefore, A study on “Knowledge and practices on prevention from complications of Hypertension among the clients” conducted to identify the knowledge and practices on prevention from complications of Hypertension among the clients in Chitwan. Many of the study addressed that adequate knowledge and practice can prevent the complications of Hypertension (HTN) and improved the quality of life of the clients. Descriptive cross-sectional study design was adopted among 55 respondents. Non probability, purposive sampling technique was used to select the respondents in Bharatpur hospital, Bharatpur, Chitwan. A semi-structured interview questionnaire was used for data collection and the obtained data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean and inferential statistical chi-square test used to analyze the association between knowledge and practices and socio- demographical variables through academic table. The study results revealed that, majorities (58.2%) of the respondents were literate and about half (52.7%) of the respondents didn’t know meaning of hypertension. Almost all (94.5%) of the respondents answered that low salt intake is the main preventive measure of complications of HTN. 18.2% respondents had habit of smoking and 45.5% respondents had not practice of regular eye check up. 67.3% of the respondents had moderate knowledge . Likewise 67.3% of the respondents had good practices. Level of knowledge is statistically significant with literacy status (p=0.047). level of practice is statistically significant with occupational status (p=0.044). It is concluded that majority of the respondents had average knowledge and good practices on prevention from complication of hypertension although clients had not good practices according to their knowledge. Based on findings, it is recommended that a well designed counseling and made more aware on hypertensive complications to the hypertensive clients from all health sectors.