Hypertension is one of the leading vascular diseases and is called as “Silent Killer”. The world’s biggest killer is ischemic heart disease, responsible for 16% of the world’s total deaths. Since 2000, the largest increase in deaths has been for this disease, rising by more than 2 million to 8.9 million deaths in 2019.Hypertension remains a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease globally. Hypertension Despite considerable improvement in increasing awareness, treatment and control of hypertension. Undiagnosed and uncontrolled hypertension remains a major public health challenge. Our focus was on studying the knowledge, attitude and lifestyle modification regarding hypertension at hypertensive clinic OPD KGMU. Descriptive study with quantitative research approach was used. Total90samplesselectedbypurposivesamplingtechnique.The result revealed that level of knowledge on life style modification among hypertensive patients. 24 hypertensive patients were having less than 50 % knowledge, 66 hypertensive patients were having more than 50% knowledge. The observations on attitude items showed that the maximum proportion of strongly agree was found for the attitude A2 (Stress can be a cause factor for high blood pressure, 53.3%) while maximum proportion of strongly disagree was found for the attitude A6 (For a hypertensive patient it is not necessary to avoid stressful situation, 18.9%). More knowledge was observed in higher income group(P= 0.025) and nuclear family (p= 0.023).There was a significant association of attitude (Antihypertensive medicine is essential for controlling high BP) was found with family income (P=0.040) and marital status showed significant relationship is (P=0.008) more married where agreed than unmarried and Widow. The study concluded that Nurses are the front line health care worker need to assess the life style practices and educate the patients about the importance of change of life style practices to prevent complications and improve the health of the patient. Nurses could use multidisciplinary approach to educate and motivate the person to change the lifestyle practices.
KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS, LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION
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