Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder affecting children as well adults. It associated with misconceptions, myths and social stigma. Patient, parents, family members, school teachers, medical professionals look at this different perspective. Knowledge, Attitude Practice (KAP) regarding epilepsy has been studied in various segments of population. Not many studies are available stude...

Hypertension in Malaysia, where at least one out of three Malaysian adults has hypertension, is a significant contributor to cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, this cross-sectional study focus determine the prevalence hypertension and association socio-demographic, anthropometry status, blood pressure, Knowledge, Attitude, Practice (KAP) towards salt intake with among participants FELDA’s resi...

Introduction: Cervical Cancer is the preventable cancer among all female genital tract cancers when detected in premalignant stage. The increasing incidence could be attributed to lack of awareness regarding screening and paucity organised facilities country. Early detection can done by Pap smear (PS), which an inexpensive procedure look for cervical cytological changes.Aims & Objectives: This ...

Introduction: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, and HPV an aetiological agent for cervical cancer (CC). In Sri Lanka, CC second frequent affecting women. The present study was undertaken to determine knowledge, attitude practices (KAP) regarding infection, vaccination among paramedical students Faculty Allied Health Sciences (FAHS), ...

Background and aims: Local context of knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) is of central importance to reduce the public health concerns like metabolic syndrome and thus designing of proper strategies to improve health in a population requires sufficient data which are scanty in Bangladesh. Therefore a project was designed an attempt to start a solution by BIRDEM and WDF ( Jan 06–Aug 11). The...

BACKGROUND Adverse drug reactions (ADR) are ranked as some of the major causes of patient morbidity and mortality. Spontaneous reporting of ADRs has remained the cornerstone of pharmacovigilance and is important in maintaining patient safety. This study was conducted to assess the nurses' knowledge and attitude towards pharmacovigilance, reasons for not reporting ADRs, and their pharmacovigilan...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the infant oral health (IOH) related knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of parents in Udaipur, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among 470 parents visiting the Department of Pediatrics, Rabindranath Tagore Medical College and Hospital. A 32-item questionnaire covering socio-demographic characteri...

A KAP study on dengue/dengue haemorrh agic fever (DF/DHF) was carried out in three areas in the Federal Territory. The three areas were selected based on their ethnic group composition and were Jinjang North (Chinese), Kampung Bahru (Malays) and Sentul (Indians). Houses were selected by a systematic sampling method and house-to-house interviews were carried out with a pre-tested, predesigned qu...

Nutrition forms the foundation for physical performance of an athlete. Nutrients deficiency can negatively affect health and sports There are several factors attributed to this situation which include lack knowledge regarding nutrition, specifically nutrition. This is because, a person with most likely have negative attitude poor dietary practice [1].
 
 The aim study assess levels nu...