Assessment of knowledge and compliance on lifestyle modifications and drug regimen among patients attending cardiology OPD at selected hospitals at Darjeeling District, West Bengal

Abstract

Nowadays non communicable disease is not only affects the health, it has great impact on the lifestyle also. The study is “assessment of knowledge and compliance on lifestyle modifications and drug regimen among patients attending Cardiology OPD at selected hospitals at Darjeeling District, West Bengal”. To determine the knowledge and compliance on lifestyle modifications and drug regimen among patients attending cardiology OPD. A non-experimental descriptive survey and non-probability purposive sampling technique was adopted on 176 patients attending cardiology OPD at selected hospitals at Darjeeling District, West Bengal for the study. The data were collected by structured questionnaires and analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. The study revealed average knowledge of the respondent’s i.e.59% and 64% in lifestyle medications and drug regimen. Moderate compliance has been reported i.e. 65% and 79% in lifestyle modifications and drug regimen. There is a moderate positive correlation exist between knowledge and compliance on lifestyle modifications (r=0.63) at 0.001 level of significance. The study also found that there is association between compliance on lifestyle modifications with selected demographic variables i.e. gender at 0.05 and education at 0.01 level of significance and no association with other selected demographic variables at 0.05 level of significance. To prevent cardiovascular disease the nurses can play a key role by providing health education to youths and high risk groups in the society.