Khedir, Shaherah Abd (2024) Knowledge, attitude, and practice of sodium salt and its relationship with sodium salt intake among hypertensive patients in Hospitalpakar Universiti Sains Malaysia. Project Report. Universiti Sains Malaysia. (Submitted)
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Abstract
At least one out of three Malaysian adults have hypertension in Malaysia, where, is a significant contributor to cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, this cross-sectional study was aimed to determine the association Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) towards sodium salt intake with hypertension among patients in Hospital Pakar Universiti Sains Malaysia (HPUSM), Kubang Kerian, Kelantan. About 120 participants from Outpatient and Inpatient of HPUSM was participated in this study. The majority of participants were females (65.8%) with mean age of 53.62(6.72) years old. The participants were recruited using non-probability convenience sample technique and required to answer the questionnaire via face to face interview with an informed consent a self-administrated validated questionnaire in Malay language that included sociodemographic information, knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) toward sodium and food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) on dietary sodium. The significant was set as p < 0.05. Therefore, overall KAP score was poor (53.43%) with poor KAP on sodium of ≥2000 mg dietary sodium intake. In this study, there were no significant (p>0.05) associations between KAP on salt intake with sodium intake. However, female patients had better KAP score on sodium (p<0.001) and sodium intake (p<0.001) compared to male. Also, unemployed and low household income participants had better KAP on sodium (p<0.001) and dietary sodium salt intake (p<0.001). Further study and interventions are needed to reduce the salt intake among hypertensive patients and thus re Department duce the risk of hypertension.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Project Report) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Sodium salt |
| Subjects: | R Medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | Kampus Kesihatan (Health Campus) > Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan (School of Health Sciences) > Monograph |
| Depositing User: | Mr Husnan Budin |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Feb 2025 08:34 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Mar 2025 06:25 |
| URI: | http://eprints.usm.my/id/eprint/61920 |
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