{"id":5156,"date":"2023-07-28T14:34:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T14:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2023-08-07T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:40:04","slug":"west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2014-25-2-98-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2014-25-2-98-106\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Journal of Pharmacy (2014) 25 (2) 98-106"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Hypertension prevalence, knowledge, attitude & awareness among pharmacists in Jos, Nigeria<\/b><\/p>

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Isaac Okoh Abah, Blessing Mary Dare, Hafsat Olufunke Jimoh<\/p>

Pharmacy Department, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria<\/p>

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Corresponding Author: Isaac Okoh Abah<\/p>

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Background: <\/b>Knowledge and awareness of blood pressure (BP) play an important role in the successful control\u00a0of hypertension and prevention of hypertension-related complications.<\/span><\/p>

Objectives:<\/b> The study is aimed at estimating the prevalence, knowledge, awareness, and attitudes of\u00a0hypertension and its risk factors among pharmacists in Jos, Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>

Methods:<\/b> A cross-sectional prospective study was conducted during the month of July 2013 among\u00a0pharmacists in Jos metropolis using a self-administered questionnaire and BP measurement. Factors\u00a0<\/span>associated with hypertension knowledge, awareness and attitude were analyzed by Kruskal-Wallis test or\u00a0<\/span>student t-test as appropriate while multivariate regression assessed factors associated with hypertension.<\/span><\/p>

Results:<\/b> In all, 200 pharmacists, median age 35 years (IQR 28-46 years), 72% males participated in the study.\u00a0The prevalence of hypertension was 8%. Overall, 90% of respondents had good knowledge of hypertension,\u00a0<\/span>while 82% had a poor attitude towards hypertension. Inadequate hypertension related knowledge was an\u00a0<\/span>independent risk factor for stage 1 hypertension (adjusted odd ratio 10.9; 95% confidence interval: 1.2-54.6),\u00a0<\/span>adjusting for age, sex, body mass index, marital status and length of employment.<\/span><\/p>

Conclusion<\/b> A low prevalence and adequate knowledge of hypertension was observed among pharmacists in\u00a0Jos, however, the attitude\/awareness of hypertension was very poor. Interventions to improve awareness and\u00a0<\/span>reduce hypertension risk among pharmacists are needed.<\/span><\/p>

Keywords:<\/b> Pharmacists, High blood pressure, Awareness, Nigeria<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Hypertension prevalence, knowledge, attitude & awareness among pharmacists in Jos, Nigeria \u00a0 Isaac Okoh Abah, Blessing Mary Dare, Hafsat Olufunke Jimoh Pharmacy Department, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria \u00a0 Corresponding Author: Isaac Okoh Abah Email: isaacabah@gmail.com, Phone +2348037035932 ABSTRACT Background: Knowledge and awareness of blood pressure (BP) play an important role in the successful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5162,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}