Volume : IX, Issue : VI, June - 2019

IDENTIFICATION OF RISK STATUS AND KNOWLEDGE OF RISK FACTORS RELATED TO HYPERTENSION AMONG WORKERS OF THERMAL POWER PLANT, KOLAGHAT, WEST BENGAL

Moumita Mondal, Prof. Gopa Roy, Ruma Roy

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Non communicable disease kills 40 million people each year, equivalent to 70 % of all globally. A descriptive study was conducted to identification of risk status and knowledge of risk factors related to hypertension among workers of thermal power plant, Kolaghat, West Bengal, with the objectives to identify the risk status of workers, to assess the knowledge of risk factors related to hypertension among workers. The study setting was in West Bengal Power Development Co. Ltd. Kolaghat ( WBPDCL). A valid and reliable data collection tools were used to collect the required data from 100 respondents, selected through non pobability convenient sampling technique. The study finding revealed that 84 % were male and 16 % were female, 40 % of the respondent belonged to the age group of 41 – 50 years of age, 82 % were married and 65 % were educated up to graduate level, 57 % had the habit of walking whereas 43 % did not had the habit of daily walking. The collected data also showed that 60 % of the respondents had low risk of developing hypertension among them 08 % respondents were female whereas 52 % were male workers. It also shows that 40 % respondents were having moderate risk of developing hypertension, among them 08 % were female workers and 32 % were male workers. The mean knowledge score was 17.59, median 18 and mean percentage was 70.36 %, depicting that the obtained knowledge score was almost normally distributed. The standard deviation calculated was 2.47, means, the moderated dispersion of the scores. The study concluded that most of the respondents had very good (60 %– 80 %) knowledge about risk of developing hypertension.

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IDENTIFICATION OF RISK STATUS AND KNOWLEDGE OF RISK FACTORS RELATED TO HYPERTENSION AMONG WORKERS OF THERMAL POWER PLANT, KOLAGHAT, WEST BENGAL, Moumita Mondal, Prof. Gopa Roy, Ruma Roy INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-6 | June-2019

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