“A Study to Assess the Knowledge Regarding Early Symptoms of Atherosclerosis Among Adults in Selected Area of Pune City”

Abstract

Atherosclerosis is a condition where plaque builds up inside your arteries, leading to narrowing and Hardening of the arteries. Apart from this lifestyle factors and heredity, the research suggests that chronic inflammation may play a vital role in increase of atherosclerosis. This highlights the importance of not only managing some traditional risk factors but also to prevent through good lifestyle, by maintaining proper diet, systematic exercise, stress management, maintaining good environment and avoiding drugs, alcohol, smoking, etc  

The present study title: “A study to assess the knowledge regarding the early symptoms of Atherosclerosis among adults in the selected areas of Pune city.

“Material and Methods:  The present study conducted was non-experimental with Quantitative Research approach. The population for the current study were the adults of age 30-70years. The data was collected from total of 200 samples using a self-structured questionnaire by non-probability sampling method. The informed consent was filled by the participants prior to filling the tool. The questionnaire consists of two sections mainly demographic section and main tool.

Result: The result shows that about 2% people have proper knowledge about the early symptoms of atherosclerosis

Conclusion: From the data inspection, it is evident that majority of adults are from age group are of 30 to 40 years, and the study shows that majority of the people that is 66% adults have average Knowledge regarding the early symptoms of atherosclerosis. Demographic variables were found to have no significant association with knowledge. The previous studies also focused on the importance to educate and to conduct more researches and how to improve the knowledge in teens by which we can prevent atherosclerosis before it is too late.

Recommendation: A similar study can be conducted on a large population to find definite conclusions.