Assessment the Knowledge and Attitudes Patients with Hypertensive in Mosul City / Iraq

Zainel, Ihsan Hassan

doi:10.33899/mjn.2025.190368

	Assessment the Knowledge and Attitudes Patients with Hypertensive in Mosul City / Iraq
Mosul Journal of Nursing
Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2025
Document Type: Original Articles
DOI: 10.33899/mjn.2025.190368
Author
Ihsan Hassan Zainel^*
. Nursing college University of Telafer
Abstract
Background : Blood pressure(BP) means the force applied to the walls of the arteries as a result of blood being pumped into them and is measured in millimeters of mercury (mmHg), above the surrounding atmospheric. Iraq suffers from the prevalence of high blood pressure among the adult population. The study (2008) recorded that approximately 40% of the group (25 years and over, which represents 40% of the population) suffer from high blood pressure. And that the prevalence rate is higher among males than females. And that high blood pressure causes about 50% of all deaths in Iraq resulting from non-communicable diseases. Also, high blood pressure is the main contributor to other non-communicable diseases, which are considered a global epidemic. This raises the alarm for more efforts and coordination on the part of all decision-makers. At the minimum 65 million more people in the Europe are at risk of developing for hypertension, either because they have borderline hypertensive or reason they have diabetic mellitus, renal disease or other cases accompanied with a hypertension. The objectives of the study are to assess the knowledge and attitude patients with hypertensive in Mosul City / Iraq ,also to find the relationship between the Socio-demographic characteristics such as (age, gender, level of education, income, marital status ,smoking, nature of living , occupation) and knowledge ,and attitude of patients with hypertensive. Methods: cross-sectional study to assess the knowledge and attitudes among the 600 patients with hypertensive in Mosul City / Iraq, using a structured questionnaire , was conducted with Interview schedule and convenient sampling technique. Results: Majority of patients with hypertensive fifty five were from the age group a fifty one years and above years, also the majority of patients (fifty three percent) were males more than half number. concerning the level of education majority of patients (twenty three percent) were primary school level .The study revealed that the majority of income for the patients (thirty two percent) about 150.000 -250.000 Iraqi Dinar , and most of whom had (eighty two percent ) were married , about the smoking a majority of patients(fifty eight percent ) with hypertensive were smokers. Related to the occupation a majority of patients (thirty nine percent ) were a housewife and most of whom (seventy five percent ) were lived in urban. Conclusion: It can be concluded from this study that the hypertensive patients in our community have relatively good knowledge , but had poor attitude and compliance to treatment. This lack of awareness about hypertension had led the disease to be labelled as a silent killer. Recommendation: According to these results, we recommend raising the level of knowledge through continuous group education courses in the hospitals and primary health care centers. Special health education programs must be arrangement through the media to inform the whole population about the healthy lifestyle, and risk factors for blood pressure , including smoking ,and high cholesterol level in order to minimize the complications of disease
Keywords
Knowledge; Attitude; Hypertension; Iraq; Patients

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