Key result
Just ~55% of hypertensive patients know of self-monitoring, with even fewer owning monitors.
Why the study?
Knowledge of self-monitoring of blood pressure is suboptimal in most developing countries, necessitating evaluation of patients' knowledge and attitude to improve hypertensive management.
Cross-Sectional (n=106)
No
Moderate knowledge but low ownership suggests access barriers to self-monitoring; leaves open whether device provision improves control in similar settings.
Background: We evaluated the knowledge and attitude to Self-monitoring of blood pressure amongst adult patients in a hospital in the Niger Delta so as redirect efforts to improve patients' knowledge and attitude to self-monitoring of blood pressure.Materials and Methods: 100 patients with essential hypertension attending the Cardiology Clinic of the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital were recruited consecutively over a two-month period (September to November 2013).Demographic data, knowledge and attitude to Self-monitoring of blood pressure were obtained using self-administered questionnaire.Simple percentages and Chi square were used to analyze data obtained.P<0.05 was considered statistically significant.Results: A total of 100 patients were studied and 54.7% of them know about self-monitoring of Blood Pressure.88% of the patients agreed that self-monitoring of Blood Pressure is important.Civil servants were more likely to know about SMBP or think that it is important.Those with primary or no education were four times less likely to know about SMBP.Conclusion: The results of our study suggest suboptimal knowledge about Self-monitoring of Blood Pressure.It is important that clinicians and health care providers intensify efforts to improve patients' knowledge about SMBP for better hypertensive management outcome.
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Ambakederemo et al. (2014) conducted a cross-sectional in Essential hypertension (n=106). Knowledge and attitude towards self-monitoring of blood pressure (SMBP) was evaluated on Proportion of patients with knowledge about self-monitoring of blood pressure. Among 106 patients with essential hypertension in Nigeria, 54.7% had knowledge of self-monitoring of blood pressure, while only 35.9% owned a personal blood pressure monitor.
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