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Krzyżanowska Ewa, Rzepecki Kamil, Łuczyk Robert, Wawryniuk Agnieszka, Jędrzejewska Aneta, Zwolak Agnieszka. The level of knowledge of the rural population on risk factors and prophylaxis of hypertension. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(11):112-129 eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1472615 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6216 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eissn 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 02.09.2018. Revised: 18.09.2018. Accepted: 27.10.2018. The level of knowledge of the rural population on risk factors and prophylaxis of hypertension Ewa Krzyżanowska1, Kamil Rzepecki2, Robert Łuczyk1, AgnieszkaWawryniuk1, Aneta Jędrzejewska3, Agnieszka Zwolak1 1Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Internal Medicine in Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences, Medical University of Lublin 2Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences, Medical University of Lublin, Graduate 3Radom Specialist Hospital of T. Titus Chałubiński Postgraduate Center for Nurses and Midwives Abstract The aim of the study: The aim of the work was to determine the level of knowledge of the rural population on the subject of prevention and risk factors for hypertension. Material and method: The research covered a group of 200 people living in rural areas. The research was carried out from May to June 2017. A questionnaire of one's own authorship was used in the work, consisting of 19 closed one-choice questions. Results: The research shows that people living in rural areas have high level of knowledge regarding the norms of normal blood pressure. 92% of the respondents correctly indicated the upper values of systolic pressure, and 98% of the respondents were able to determine the correct values of diastolic pressure. The knowledge of the subjects regarding dietary recommendations, physical activity and stimulants such as coffee and cigarettes was at low and medium. Conclusions: The low level of knowledge about risk factors and prophylaxis of hypertension was possessed by 48.5% of respondents, the remaining 51.5% of respondents had knowledge at the secondary level. Key words: hypertension, risk factors, prophylaxis |
