PROJECT PROPOSAL

KAP ABOUT HYPERTENSION

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INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY, (IGNOU),

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 INTRODUCTION

Hypertension and diabetes are the silent killer diseases worldwide and is a major risk factor for

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many other diseases like cardiovascular diseases, stroke, renal diseases, and many other. They

are also the most important reasons to visit the physician . India presently has the large number

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of diabetic patients in world and has been infamously dubbed as the diabetic capital of the world.

Good control of blood pressure (BP) and blood sugar will result in prolonged survival.

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Increasing the knowledge, awareness, and control of hypertension will reduce the morbidity and

mortality. Studies show that many patients did not have appropriate knowledge about the
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diseases like hypertension and diabetes.

The 8TH Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and
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Treatment of High BP (JNC-8) reports that it affects 1 billion people worldwide A 55 year
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normotensive person has up to a 90% lifetime risk of developing hypertension and it is the
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number one reason listed for office visits and also causes/contributes to 457,000 admissions per
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year and a leading cause/contributor to death (myocardial infarction, stroke, vascular disease).
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Considering the high morbidity and mortality due to hypertension and knowing that if a patient
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has knowledge about the disease, patient will be more careful about the management, and a

better control can be achieved. This study will be conducted to know about the knowledge,
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attitude, and practice (KAP) about hypertension in the adult patients.

The emergence of hypertension and as a public health problem is strongly related to the aging of

the populations, urbanization, and socioeconomic changes favoring sedentary lifestyle, obesity,

alcohol consumption, and salt intake, among others.

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In this context, hypertension presents a major area of intervention because these are the frequent

conditions and is amenable to control through both non-pharmacological lifestyle factors and

pharmacological treatment. Lifestyle measures include reduced alcohol intake, reduced sodium

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chloride intake, reduced sugar intake, increased physical activity, and control of overweight.

A proper assessment and understanding of KAP factors is particularly helpful in the area of

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chronic conditions such as hypertension and diabetes, for which prevention and control

necessitate a lifelong adoption of healthy lifestyles. However, a little information on the

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assessment of KAP’s is available from developing countries where hypertension and diabetes

have lately been recognized as a major health problem. In this study, we examine KAP for
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hypertension and diabetes in adults to help improve their condition and also to control the

complications.
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There is no doubt that the knowledge and attitudes of patients have an impact on the
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management of their illnesses, and improving knowledge is known to improve compliance with
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treatment in conditions such as hypertension and diabetes. Poor compliance with prescribed
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drugs is a common and important problem in clinical practice which can result in treatment
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failure and poor outcomes. Obtaining information about the level of awareness is the first step in

formulating a preventive program for the disease. There is a need to investigate KAP among the
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general population to aid in future development of programs and techniques for effective health
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education. KAP surveys are effective in providing a baseline for evaluating intervention

programs. This study aims to assess the baseline levels of KAP of the general population toward

hypertension and diabetes.

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 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The objectives of the study will be to assess the knowledge attitude and practice about

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hypertension in adult population.

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 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This prospective and cross-sectional study will be carried out on 50 diagnosed hypertensive

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patients from Panipat, Haryana.

We will question the patients and will assess the various lifestyle factors and risk factors. The

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special case sheets will be prepared, containing all the information as name, age, sex, address,

family history, personal history, social history, marital status of the patients. The special

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questionnaire to study the KAP of the patients toward hypertension will be also included in the

case sheets and the obtained results will be analyzed.

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The data sources used will be the articles, journals, reference books and Literature Review

published by third parties but available to the public. The World Wide Web (Internet) is also
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an important source of information related to hypertension.

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