Association between knowledge and adoption of healthy living practices among hypertensive patients at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital
| dc.contributor.author | Kakowa, Zinenani | |
| dc.contributor.author | Matsimbe, Thokozani | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kankhuni, Maranatha | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-22T11:02:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-12-22T11:02:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-11-11 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Hypertension remains the most rapidly rising cardiovascular disease in Africa. It is a highly prevalent Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) in Malawi with nearly a third of 25-to-64-year-olds having raised blood pressure or taking antihypertensive medication. Lifestyle modification is the first step in hypertension management. The high prevalence of hypertension calls for implementation of healthy living practices. In Malawi there is limited or no data on the knowledge and practice of healthy living practices among hypertensive patients hence this study. Therefore, this study will focus on the association between knowledge and adoption of healthy living practices among hypertensive patients at QECH. The chief objective is to assess the association between knowledge and adoption of healthy living practices amongst hypertensive patients. This study is necessary because it will enlighten the Ministry of Health on how many hypertensive patients are aware and adopt healthy living practices. Depending on the percentage of those who are aware and those who are not, the Ministry will be able to put in place interventions that will educate people on the healthy living practices hence managing and preventing hypertension. This will be a cross sectional descriptive study and will use mixed methods, both quantitative and qualitative. The study will be conducted at QECH in Blantyre, Malawi as captioned in the title. The study participants will be any patient within the age range of 25 to 64 years old admitted in the medical ward but has hypertension and those hypertensive patients coming to the general clinic. Convenience sampling method will be used to identify possible study participants and 126 participants are expected to be enrolled. The study participants will be only those hypertensive patients that are found at the hospital at that particular time. Data will be collected by doing indepth interviews with the study participants using an interview guide and the data will be analyzed using Epi-info. It is expected that not all the hypertensive patients that are aware of the healthy living practices adopt them, some are aware and adopt the healthy living practices and some who are not aware at all. All ethical regulations will be followed to ensure that the information assembled in this study is acceptable and probable limitations of this study will be managed to ensure that the data is precise. Finally, the data collected from this study will be presented at the CoMREC research dissemination. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Kamuzu University of Health Sciences Research and Ethics Committee | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://rscarchive.kuhes.ac.mw/handle/20.500.12988/807 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Kamuzu University of Health Sciences | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Protocol;U.03/20/3017 | |
| dc.subject | Research Subject Categories::MEDICINE | en_US |
| dc.title | Association between knowledge and adoption of healthy living practices among hypertensive patients at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital | en_US |
| dc.type | Plan or blueprint | en_US |