Prevalence and awareness of hypertension among Sudanese rural population, Sinnar State, Sudan, 2016

  • Elfaki B
  • Mustafa H
  • Elnimeiri M
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Objective: The aim of this study to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and determine awareness among rural population.Methods: Cross-sectional community based study, conducted in rural community. Population was the resident citizens in age of 25-64 years. A cluster sampling technique was used and total sample size mounted to 341 subjects. The collected data was cleaned, edited and analyzed using SPSS program.Results: Prevalence of hypertension was 21.1%, systolic was 5.9% and diastolic hypertension was 10.0% with no significant differences among gender (p-value .409). About 59.7% of hypertensive subjects were unaware with their diagnosis, men were more awareness than women with proportion of 62.0% in men and 38.0% in women. Awareness with hypertension diagnosed was increased by increasing age, income and education. Most of known hypertensive subjects (86.20%) were on treatment. Approximately 80% of known hypertensive subjects were complained of signs and symptoms and 31.0% with complications. Also controlled blood pressure was 34.0% with proportion of 36.4% among women and 33.3% among men.Conclusions: The study reflected high prevalence of hypertension, systolic and diastolic among rural population, also the level of awareness among hypertensive subjects generally was low; however the level of awareness among elder, educated was better and females were more control hypertension.

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Elfaki, B. A., Mustafa, H. E., & Elnimeiri, M. K. (2017). Prevalence and awareness of hypertension among Sudanese rural population, Sinnar State, Sudan, 2016. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 7(6), 1. https://doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v7n6p1

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