EXAMINATION OF HYPERTENSION KNOWLEDGE LEVELS OF HYPERTENSION PATIENTS, TURKEY
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2022-06
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Era's Lucknow Medical College & Hospital, Lucknow
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Hypertenson s a global health problem that causes sgnfcant morbdty and mortalty. The am of the study s to determne the hypertenson knowledge level of hypertenson patents. Ths descrptve study s carred on wth 207 patents who appled to a prvate medcal clnc n Ankara, Turkey between January and March 2022. A sem-structured ntervew method was employed n the study to collect data. The questonnare contans two sectons. In the frst secton, the Socodemographc characterstcs form,, and n the second secton, Hypertenson Knowledge-Level Scale (HK-LS) are used. The data were analyzed wth the SPSS 21.0. The age range of the patents partcpatng n the study vares between 18-73 years, and the mean age s 54.3±4.2. Among the partcpants, 53.1% of them are women, and 70.5% of them are marred. The HK- LS average of the partcpants s found (16.3±3.45). As a result, the hypertenson knowledge level of the patents s found to be hgh n the study. The hypertenson knowledge level s hgher among the young than the elderly, those who pay regular vsts to doctors than those who do not, and unversty graduates compared to prmary school graduates. In order to ncrease the patents' knowledge level, t s beleved that t wll be useful to offer tranng and organze semnars, especally for the elderly, prmary school graduates, and those who do not pay regular vsts to doctors.
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Hypertenson, Knowledge level, Patent, Dsease nformaton, Hypertenson treatment, Atttude & behavour.
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Ikizek M. EXAMINATION OF HYPERTENSION KNOWLEDGE LEVELS OF HYPERTENSION PATIENTS, TURKEY. Era's Journal of Medical Research. 2022 Jun; 9(1): 25-30