Assessment of Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Stroke among Hypertensive Clients
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AbstractStroke is the sudden death of brain cells due to lack of oxygen. A stroke occurs when bloodflow to the brain is damaged resulting in abnormal function of brain. The present study wasconducted to assess the knowledge and attitude of stroke among hypertensive clients in villageBoparai Kalan, Ludhiana, Punjab. 175 hypertensive clients were conveniently selected. Toolconsisted of self structured questionnaire to assess the knowledge regarding stroke amongdiagnosed hypertensive clients. Further, a checklist was used to assess the attitude ofhypertensive clients regarding stroke. Results revealed that 86% of hypertensive clients hadaverage knowledge regarding stroke where as 12% had poor knowledge and only 2% hadgood knowledge regarding stroke. Results also revealed that diabetes mellitus (10.3%) wascommonly occurring disorder among hypertensive clients. While talking about attitude, 93%had positive attitude and only 7% had negative attitude regarding prevention of stroke. Henceit can be concluded that in spite of average knowledge, hypertensive clients had positiveattitude regarding stroke prevention.Keywords: Knowledge, attitude, stroke, hypertensive clientsCite this ArticleMeena Kumari Bimal, Sandeep Kaur.Assessment of Knowledge and AttitudeRegarding Stroke among HypertensiveClients. Journal of Nursing Science &Practice. 2017; 7(2): 1–7p.
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