Knowledge Attitude Practice studies on Diabetic and Hypertensive Patients in Tertiary Care Corporate Hospital

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The present study was planned with the aim to determine the level of KAP about diabetes and hypertensive patients in tertiary care corporate hospital.
METHODOLOGY: A prospective cross-section observational study. The study will be conducted for a period of 6 months. The study criteria are in-patients of medicine, ICU, and casualty patients who were treated with diabetes and hypertension in a tertiary care corporate hospital. A total of 130 prescriptions were included in the study. Patients age between 20-90 years of age. In patients and outpatient department. Both males and females. Patients who are not willing to give consent. No proper medical history details. Pregnant and lactating women and Paediatric patients. Patients who are bedridden. It contains patient demographic details like name, age, sex, date of admission, date of discharge, complaints on admission, medical history, medication history, social history, family history, previous allergies and it includes physical examinations, provisional diagnosis, final diagnosis, progress chart and medications. Source of data collection: Study materials, Patient consent form, Patient data collection form, Patient information leaflets. It contains demographic details of patients, purpose of study and brief detailed explanation of the study with in English, Telugu and Hindi.
RESULTS: A total of 130 cases were collected in all departments of sunshine hospital, secunderabad for a period of six months. The following evaluation was made from the collected data. In our present study, it was found that more male patients are admitted to the various departments in the hospital, when compared to female patients. Out of 130 patients enrolled thenumber of male patients was found to be 68(52.30%) while number of female patients was 62(47.60%). The reason for higher incidence of male patients may be due to uncontrolled diet and improper exercise.Out of 130 patients, the maximum number of patients aged between 61-70 is suffering from diabetes followed by age group (51-60).During the study, out of 130 patients it was found that there are more patients from the orthopaedics 32 patients (24.6%) and cardiology 23 patients (17.69%) are suffering from diabetes and hypertension.Out of 130 cases, a majority of then drugs were purely prescribed based on the brand names i.e., 112(86.28%) followed by generic namesi.e.,18 (13.72%). The pattern of prescription in terms of the genric name was found to be low and should be encouraged.
CONCLUSION: Knowledge of diabetic patients was fairly good butattitude and practices were not up to the mark.Public health Programs involving educational interventions and behavioral change is the need ofthe hour for better control and management of the diseases. Present study reflected a lack of knowledge among hypertensive patients regarding normal BP, symptoms and complications. A positive attitude and practice were observed among the patients except for practice of regular exercise. Hence, emphasize on awareness about symptoms, complications and importance of physical activity should be improved particularly among male patients.