International Journal of Dental Sciences & Research - Volumes & Issues - Volume 4: Dec 2024,Issue 2

AWARENESS REGARDING PREVENTIVE MEASURES OF COMMON NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AMONG LOCAL POPULATION.

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George Nathan, Jangarkesselly, Shubham Jindal, Manjot Singh, Deepak Verma, Ketan Bali

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Communicable diseases, awareness, population, blood pressure.

Abstract

Aim of study: To evaluate awareness regarding preventive measures of common non-communicable diseases among local population.

Materials & methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among patients attending community dental outreach pro- grams organized by the Dental Teaching Hospital over a period of 1 month.A total of 106 subjects were selected for the study who were above 18 years of age.The structured questionnaire on the awareness regarding preventive measures of common non-communicable diseases distributed among selected sample subjects. Data were collected and analyzed statistically.

Results: Majority of participants knew smoking can affect their health (91.5%), compared to (1.9%) who don’t know. Ma- jority of participants knew little about high blood pressure (67.9%), compared to (9.4%) who knew appropriate about high blood pressure. Majority of participants were aware of importance of checking blood pressure regularly (54.7%), and (47.2%) knew blood pressure should be checked more than once a month. 88.7% of the participants knew that unhealthy diets can cause heart diseases while fried foods, refined grains, high salted and sugar foods are most mentioned foods that can cause heart diseases.

Conclusion: This study revealed that, the general awareness about non-communicable diseases and its preventive measures in this local population is moderate.Therefore, there is increased need in the management of non-communicable diseas- es through different strategies like health awareness building, screening and lifestyle interventions, developing policies to address and combat non-communicable diseases and generating evidence-based research on non-communicable diseases among local population.

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