29Aug 2017

KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PERCEPTION OF ADULTS ON CHILDHOOD HYPERTENSION IN THE HIGHER TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDE I.

  • Department of Biological Sciences, Higher Teachers? Training College, University of Yaound? I, P.O. Box 047, Yaound?, Cameroon.
  • Faculty of de Medecine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaound? I, Yaound?, Cameroon, P.O. Box 1364.
  • Hospital Centre for Applied Research, Endoscopic Surgery and Human Reproduction, Cameroun P.O. Box: 5154.
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Background: Hypertension is the commonest non-communicable disease in the world affecting both sexes in all races. The morbidity and mortality burden of adult hypertension is definitely more significant and quite tremendous when compared to childhood hypertension which is less common and generally not known to occur by the population. Objectives: This study was conducted to ascertain the knowledge, Attitude and Perception of childhood hypertension among the adults in the Higher Teachers? Training College of the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon. Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted in the Higher Teachers? Training College of yaounde, Cameroon between 19th to 20thDecember 2017. The study was carried among available adults at the study time and a self-administered questionnaire was filled for data collection. Results: The majority of participants belong to the age group of 21-30 years. Most of them were males (56.4%). Majority of the participants were single (57.3%) and more than half (50.9%) of the participants were students. (88.2%) of the participants had university level. 65.5% respondents that knew hypertension implied high blood pressure. However 43.6% respondents did not think that childhood hypertension exist, while 85.5% respondents were not aware of any child diagnosed with hypertension. 52.7% of the respondents had the overall high level knowledge towards childhood hypertension. Only 38.4% of the respondents had positive attitude and 57.1% had good perception towards childhood hypertension. Conclusions: There is still a low awareness about the existence, diagnosis and management of childhood hypertension in our population. Childhood hypertension education program should be set among communities.

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[Odely Elizabeth, DAMARIS Enyegue Mandob and Noa Ndoua Claude Cyrille. (2017); KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PERCEPTION OF ADULTS ON CHILDHOOD HYPERTENSION IN THE HIGHER TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDE I. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Aug). 1842-1848] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

DAMARIS ENYEGUE MANDOB

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/5250      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/5250

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