Awareness and Level of Knowledge in Preventing Coronary Heart Disease Among Community Sample

Abstract

CHD is ranked number one as a cause of death in non-communicable diseases in Indonesia. The increasing number of people with CHD not only having an impact on mortality rates also an increase in health care needs. Adequate knowledge of the disease contributes to an accurate understanding of the disease and improves adherence to a healthy lifestyle to prevent CHD. This study aims to analyze the awareness and level of community knowledge in preventing CHD. This research was a quantitative research with descriptive analytic method. Awareness and level of knowledge about CHD were evaluated using The Heart Disease Fact Questionnaire. In this study, a total of 60 respondents were obtained through a Cluster Random Sampling in the population of people who have not been diagnosed with CHD in the Village of Timpag, Tabanan Regency, Bali. The main results of this study indicated that awareness and knowledge of the highest risk factors are smoking (89.1%) followed by a factor of high cholesterol (86.6%) and high LDL cholesterol levels (86.3%) and uncontrolled blood pressure (85.9%) and overweight (82.4%). Conversely, risk factors for diabetes (50.7%), HDL cholesterol levels (52.1%), and physical activity (53.5%) received less attention. This study found that the majority of respondents were aware of and have adequate knowledge about CHD risk factors. The results of this study can add information in the development of health promotion materials or policies as an effort to prevent CHD. Further research with a larger population needs to be done to increase public awareness of CHD.
 Index Terms— Awareness, Coronary Heart Disease, Level of Knowledge

Assessment of Cardiovascular Diseases Knowledge and Risk Factors Among Adult Population in the South Region of Saudi Arabia

“…Knowledge of risk factors that are commonly known by the study participants was smoking (94.2%) followed by physical activity (90.9%) and overweight (86.9%). These results were in harmony with the previous studies that reported that the level of knowledge on smoking risk factors received the highest score (90.3% and 89.1%) (Fahs et al, 2017; Suarningsih & Suindrayasa, 2020). Family history of CVD, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and diabetes was less frequently identified by participants as risk factors for developing CVDs.…”

“…Previous studies conducted in Saudi Arabia supported the findings that there is limited knowledge about the CVDs risk factors among the Saudis in Jeddah (Almalki et al, 2019), Qassim (Albadrani et al, 2020), Riyadh (Mujamammi et al, 2020), and Western region (Alghamdi et al, 2021). This is higher than what was obtained in India (60.26 ± 17.20) (Yeluri et al, 2021), and lower than a study conducted in Indonesia (Suarningsih & Suindrayasa, 2020). In comparison with another study conducted among university teachers in Saudi Arabia, the mean knowledge scores were higher ranges from 72.97% to 74.31% (Tomar et al, 2015).…”

“…While about half of participants had good knowledge (51.4%), this is higher than what was obtained by previous studies of 44.7% (Suarningsih & Suindrayasa, 2020). All participants answered 12 out of 25 questions with less the 70.0% correct response.…”

“…Lifestyle changes such as modifying dietary habits and sustainable exercise activities can be benefited for those who are at risk of developing risk factors. Media involvement is useful in conveying these messages to the public (Suarningsih & Suindrayasa, 2020).…”

“…This is could be related to caring for their family member, following up on medical treatment and awareness obtained from attending health care providers, and from reading more about their family member's condition. Contradictory results found there is no relationship between family history of heart disease with participant's level of knowledge (Suarningsih & Suindrayasa, 2020). Meanwhile, Imes and Lewis (2014) have shown that a family history of CVDs is not a sufficient predictor for lifestyle modifications.…”