Kaur Amandeep, Dhoat Preeti S, Kaur Navdeep, Sahoo Soumya S
Department of General Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bathinda, Punjab, India.
Department of Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bathinda, Punjab, India.
J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2024 Feb;16(Suppl 1):S118-S121. doi: 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_406_23. Epub 2024 Feb 29.
Knowledge and awareness studies reveal the basic information of the community and the misconceptions in relation to practices of a disease. The identification of such factors is important as they directly influence the health care-related interventions. Hypertension is one of the emerging noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) globally. So, we conducted this study to assess the status of our community regarding hypertension.
The study was conducted on 300 hypertensive patients to assess the knowledge and awareness by a hypertension fact questionnaire. Medication adherence was assessed in the same group of patients by Hill-Bone scale-a uniform scale used worldwide.
Our study revealed a greater number of females with hypertension as compared to males and a maximum number of patients being in the age-group of 61-70 years and belonging to rural areas. Most of the patients had a secondary education as a highest educational qualification with only 10% of patients being postgraduates. A fair number of patients had a good knowledge and awareness about their disease, and most of the respondents accounted forgetfulness as a main reason for nonadherence to therapy over other reasons.
Our population has good knowledge and awareness about their disease despite not having very good educational qualifications, and we need to strengthen our healthcare programs for even more greater dissemination of information.
知识与认知研究揭示了社区的基本信息以及与某种疾病相关实践中的误解。识别这些因素很重要，因为它们直接影响与医疗保健相关的干预措施。高血压是全球新兴的非传染性疾病之一。因此，我们开展了这项研究以评估我们社区关于高血压的状况。
该研究对300名高血压患者进行，通过高血压事实问卷评估其知识与认知。在同一组患者中，采用希尔 - 博恩量表（一种全球通用的统一量表）评估药物依从性。
我们的研究显示，高血压女性患者数量多于男性，患者数量最多的年龄组为61 - 70岁，且大多来自农村地区。大多数患者的最高学历为中学教育，只有10%的患者为研究生学历。相当一部分患者对自己的疾病有较好的知识和认知，并且大多数受访者认为遗忘是不坚持治疗的主要原因，而非其他原因。
尽管我们的人群学历并非很高，但他们对自己的疾病有较好的知识和认知，我们需要加强医疗保健项目，以更广泛地传播信息。
