Coronary heart disease: health knowledge and behaviour

Abstract

The deficit in CHD knowledge could translate into inadequate preventative behaviour patterns and suboptimal clinical outcomes. If community pharmacists wish to become increasingly involved in public health delivery relating to CHD they need to develop effective and accessible services and promote these to the public who at present do not recognise this role of the community pharmacist.

Factors Associated With the General Public Knowledge and Awareness of Cardiovascular Diseases and its Risk Factors in Penang – Malaysia

“…Our results indicated no association between self reported level of health and the knowledge and awareness, which is consistent with other studies [19,23]. Our findings showed no association between personal income and the knowledge and awareness.…”

“…This is not in line with findings of Saeed et al (2009) in India and Al Hamarneh et al (2011) in North Ireland. Both studies indicated that practicing exercise is associated with knowledge on CVDs.…”

“…Certain literature showed no association between gender and knowledge on CVDs [18,19,23]. However, our findings supports the results of Muhamed et al (2012).…”

“…The findings of our study showed that paying attention to eat healthy diet is a predictive factor of knowledge and awareness on CVDs. There are consistency in the literature regarding this association [19,23]. Although the difference in culture and food between the two countries North Ireland [23] and Jordan [19], the consistency with our findings imply that people's life style in terms of diet is affected by their health knowledge and perceptions.…”

“…There are consistency in the literature regarding this association [19,23]. Although the difference in culture and food between the two countries North Ireland [23] and Jordan [19], the consistency with our findings imply that people's life style in terms of diet is affected by their health knowledge and perceptions. It is possible to infer that by increasing the general public awareness on the consequences of eating un-healthy diets might have positive effect on their habits.…”