Jamari, Muhammad Syakirin and Paramesvaran, Reshma K and Sharif, Nur Fatihah (2020) Knowledge, attitude, practice and awareness on hypertension among students and staffs in Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), Universiti Putra Malaysia. [Project Paper] (Submitted)
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Abstract
Hypertension is one of the causes of non-communicable diseases in Malaysia. If not identified earlier, it can result in other complications such as stroke and myocardial infarction. It is also important to prevent people from developing hypertension. There are controllable and uncontrollable risk factors of hypertension. Uncontrollable risk factors encompasses gender, age, genetic factors and ethnicity, where people cannot escape from it. However, for modifiable risk factors such as obesity, dietary intake and others that can be altered in daily life. Unfortunately, not everybody is aware of the risk factor or purposely ignores their own health with an unhealthy lifestyle. The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that Malaysia has the highest rate of obesity and overweight cases among the nations in Asia with either 64 percent and 65 percent of the male and female population respectively being obese or overweight cases. It is undeniable that there are many forms of awareness that have been done in our country in order to reduce the prevalence and incidence of hypertension. Nevertheless, there are still people who are clueless about hypertension. Many studies demonstrated that the level of awareness of hypertension in society is still lacking. Awareness and Knowledge are very important elements in order to determine attitude and practice of individuals towards hypertension. Thus, it is very important to perform a study to gauge the level of knowledge, awareness, attitude and practice of hypertension in each individual. 6 This study will be carried out in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Cross sectional study will be used in our study. Simple random sampling will be a sampling method to choose students and staff of the faculty to participate in the research by answering questionnaires. The study will utilize an online platform only for collecting data from respondents. The questionnaire consists of questions about knowledge, attitude, practice and awareness respectively and the results will be essential to determine the level of knowledge, awareness, attitude and practice of hypertension. Hence, this research is to assess knowledge, attitude, practice and awareness of hypertension among students and staff in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
| Item Type: | Project Paper |
|---|---|
| Faculty: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Science |
| Depositing User: | Ms Norafizah Radzuan |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Sep 2023 07:26 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2023 07:26 |
| URI: | http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1213 |
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