Assessment of Knowledge, Associated Factors Self-Care Towards Practice Hypertension and Among Hypertensive Patients in Public in Hospit Addis Ababa City Adiministration
Creators: name: Mahmud, Indew
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Background: -Patients with hypertension are at high risk of cardiovascular disease. An increase of 10 mm Hg (more than normal) in diastolic blood pressure leads to relatively increased risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease up to 37%. Moreover, hypertension may impair vision. The symptoms range from blurred vision to blindness. Since it is a chronic disease, that necessitate lifelong drug intake and changes in lifestyle. A lack of knowledge about hypertension negatively influences patients' awareness and behaviors, and is a major obstacle in controlling hypertension Objective the general objective of the study was to assess over-all level of knowledge, self-care and its associated factors among hypertensive patients in adult cardiac and renal referral clinic in public hospitals Addis Ababa city Administration Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Method – Institutional based cross sectional study was conducted in five public health hospitals (Yekatit 12, Ras Desta Zewuditu, Dagmawi Menilik and Tirunesh Bejing). The final sample size is 384 which was proportionally allocated to each of the institutions and systematic random sampling was used to select study units that was part of the study. Data was checked, cleaned and entered in to Epidata software, then imported to SPSS version 20.0 software for analysis. The results of the descriptive statistics were expressed as percentage and frequency. Associations between independent variables and dependent variables was analyzed using bivariate and multivariate analysis to identify factors which are significantly associated with knowledge; self-care practices among hypertensive patient who had follow up in the hospitals Result: - Data coming from this study reveals that (43.6%) of study participants has good knowledge about hypertension. It also indicated that there is a strong association between knowledge about hypertension and educational status, family history of hypertension, place of residency and occupational status of the study participants. On the other hand, the study shows that (51.5%) of study participants has good self-care practice towards hypertension. However, there is a significant association between self-care practice and place of residency and educational status of the study participants. Study participants who has secondary and above educational status has good self-care practice than participants have no formal education. Conclusion: - Despite the important role of knowledge and self-care practices in management of hypertension were recognized to be useful and effective in achieving hypertension control and preventing its complication, findings of this study were confirm previous findings concerning self-care among people with self-care practice was accomplished as recommended in majority respondents but knowledge was more problematic. Recommendation: - Family members should be informed about their important roles in encouraging patients to undergo a hypertension control or self-care practices.it is also recommended that Health care personnel must increase patient's awareness toward the importance of all types of self-care practices domains and strongly promote the practice among hypertensive patients via strengthening IEC program, hypertension association. Key words: -hypertension, knowledge, self-care practice and factors