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Introduction: The steady decrease of kidney function is referred to as chronic kidney disease (CKD) that increases the socio-economic burden. Among various factors that cause CKD, hypertension is one of the second leading causes.
Objective: To assess knowledge and practice on chronic kidney disease prevention and associated factors among hypertensive patients.
Methodology: An analytical cross-sectional study was conducted among 405 hypertensive patients, who attended medical outpatient department at Koshi Hospital, Biratnagar from 2022 April to 2022 June. Non-probability purposive sampling technique was used. The study instrument was adopted and modified into local contest from the CKD Screening Index developed by Khalil et al. Descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean, median and standard deviation) was used to explain variables. Binary logistic regression was used to determine the factors connected to knowledge and practice towards CKD prevention with p-value of <0.05 and confidence interval of 95% was considered.
Result: Based on findings mean age of the participants was 61.71 ± 11.272 years with 54.6% females. Half of the hypertensive patients had good (50.9%) level of knowledge whereas majority of them had good practice (87.4%) to prevent CKD. Furthermore, level of knowledge is associated with sex, ethnicity and educational status whereas level of practice is associated with sex, place of residence, and family history.
Conclusion: Half of the hypertensive patients had good level of knowledge whereas majority had good practice on prevention of CKD. Appropriate health promotion and health education programs are required to increase level of knowledge and practice among hypertensive patients.
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