Assessment of Congestive Heart Failure Patients Knowledge and Compliance in Kirkuk | ||
| kufa Journal for Nursing sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 4, Issue 2, August 2014, Pages 196-206 | ||
| Author | ||
| Abid Salih Kumait | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Heart failure is an increasing cause of morbidity and mortality, especially in people aged above 65 years .Year after year, heart failure (HF) affects and kills an increasingly large number of people , the nurses educating of Heart Failure patients about diagnosis and treatment of their diseases have fewer hospital re-admissions and a better quality of life Aim of the study:- In order to assessment patients knowledge and compliance with congestive heart failure in Kirkuk city . as well as to find out the relationship between patients knowledge and some as age and gender , residence , educational level . Methodology A descriptive study of a quantitative design was conducted in Kirkuk hospitals( Kirkuk general hospital, Azadi teaching hospital and Dakuk hospital) throughout the period from 1st of June 2012 to 31st of July 2013 . A non-probability (purposive) sample of (75) patients who admitted to Cardiac care units and ward of internal medicine at ( Kirkuk general hospital, Azadi teaching hospital and Dakuk hospital) . In order to collect the study information, a questionnaire was constructed. The questionnaire which contain of ( 54) items .Demographic data include ( 9 ) items , knowledge of the Patients include (36) items , practice of the Patients include (9) items . 3-likert scale option was used in the rating scale as: (3) for yes , (2 ) for uncertain ,and ( 1 ) for no . Content validity was determined by presenting the questionnaire to a panel of (10) experts Frequencies and percentage were used to describe and to analyze the data the present study and inferential statistical data analysis (chi-square). Results The findings of the study indicate that a high percentage 56% of patients was from four age group (51-and more) years. Its also appears that more than half (61%) of patients was male. With regard to their educational level, a high percentage (37%) from less than secondary school. The data indicate that (60%) were married. It had been noted that the majority of patients (70%) were retired. As for address, it is obvious that a high percentage (62%) of the patients were from the city. The data indicates that the most of these patients (72%) were had chronic diseases. The data analysis revealed that a high percentage (72%) of the patients were use medications. Its also appears that (53%) were no smoking. Conclusions : A socio demographic characteristic tends to have clearly effect on the knowledge of the patients and nursing staff , also the study concluded high percentage from patients have poor knowledge and practice about disease , while nurses staff have poor knowledge and need to update about congestive heart failure . Recommendation According to the results of the study, the study recommended the following items, concentrates should be on the health education for our society who may be had risk factors to heart diseases, more studies conducting about heart disease. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Heart failure; Practice; Knowledge | ||
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