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ASSESSMENT OF HYPERTENSION AMONG THE PATIENTSFROM DISTRICT PESHAWAR WITH REFERENCE TO THEIRAWARENESS LEVEL AND EDUCATION
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2017-02-28
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Volume 9- Issue 1 January - February 2017
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15-19
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: The present study assess the frequency of hypertension among various groups in District Peshawar with particularreference to their awareness level about hypertension and role of education in the control of disease.
STUDY DESIGN: A cross sectional study.
PLACE AND DURATION: The study was conducted from 5thMarch, 2013 to 22ndJanuary, 2014 at the Department of Rural Sociology,University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan.
METHODOLOGY: The data were collected through structured questionnaire (mainly) from 298 hypertensive patients from 1stMay to15thJune, 2013. The results were drawn after the analysis of data through frequencies, percentages and chi-square statistics.
RESULTS: The study found prevalence of hypertension was on rise and reported high among the families that had hypertension history(83%), along with the persons who were more males (57.7%) than females (42.3%), living in rural areas (79.5%), illiterates (47%) or hadeducation up to intermediate or higher level (22.8%), married (74.2%), and had 40.86 years average age. At the same time, a highlysignificant association (0.000) of hypertension was found with awareness about hypertension which included knowledge abouthypertension, its signs, symptoms, causes and precautions of disease in connection with awareness about disease. In case ofeducation, higher level of education was again found significantly associated with knowledge and precautions about hypertension.
CONCLUSIONS: The frequency of hypertension is high among patients of all groups studied. Even the awareness about hypertensionand education of patients having very little impact in the control of disease.
KEY WORDS: Hypertension, Education, Awareness
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