Knowledge and Practices on Prevention From Complications of Hypertension Among the Clients in Chitwan
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2014
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Institute of Medicine ( Nursing )
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.
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Nursing, Panta Yojana