Population
260 adult hypertensive patients attending cardiac clinics at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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May support health personnel-led education to address misconceptions; hypothesis-generating for adherence interventions in low-literacy Nigerian patients.
Nigerian hypertensive patients showed poor perception of hypertension causes and low mass media awareness of lifestyle modifications, but a high willingness to adopt them once informed by health personnel.
Ike et al. (2009) studied this question.
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