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Awareness and practice of routine health checkup among middle aged people of selected community of Gaindakot municipality, Gandaki province.

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Gurung, Rajani

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TextPublication details: c2022.Description: vii,39pSubject(s):

NLM classification:

THS-00689

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Summary: ABSTRACT: Background and purpose: Routine health checkup as a preventive medicine that can detect most of the non-communicable as well as some communicable diseases in its early stage if a person goes for a regular health checkup. In developing countries where the practice of periodic medical check-up is poor despite the steady increase of the burden of the non- communicable/chronic disease, very few studies have been conducted on routine health check- ups especially in Nepal. The objective of the study was to assess the awareness and practice of routine health checkup among middle aged people. Methods: Community based descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in ward. 2 of Gaindakot municipality, using non-probability purposive sampling among 115 participants aged 40-60 years of old. Semi-structured interview schedule was used to collect data. Descriptive and Inferential statistics i.e., Chi-square test done in SPSS version 20 used for analysis. Results: The study revealed that the majority (69.6%) 80 had high level, 23.7% (27) moderate level and 7.0% (8) had low level of awareness about routine health checkup. About half (50.4%) 58 practiced and 49.6% (57) do not practiced routine health checkup. Among 58 who practiced it, higher proportion (36.2%) 21 followed it 3 monthly, 44.8% (26) preferred government hospital for checkup. “Health concern” (92.3%) followed by “Worry to have chronic or serious illness” 81.0% gave reason as for practicing routine health checkup. “Need not felt” and “unaware about routine checkup” were 2 most common reasons reported as for not practicing routine health checkup (77.2% and 29.8% respectively). Socio-demographic variables like age, sex, religion, ethnicity, educational status, marital status, occupation does not tend to affect the level of education. Conclusions: This study concludes middle aged people tend to have higher awareness and known about its’ importance however they do not practice it regularly. Hence, more initiative should be given to practice of routine health checkup. Keywords: Routine health checkup, Middle aged people, Awareness, Practice

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ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose: Routine health checkup as a preventive medicine that can detect most of the non-communicable as well as some communicable diseases in its early stage if a person goes for a regular health checkup. In developing countries where the practice of periodic medical check-up is poor despite the steady increase of the burden of the non- communicable/chronic disease, very few studies have been conducted on routine health check- ups especially in Nepal. The objective of the study was to assess the awareness and practice of routine health checkup among middle aged people.

Methods: Community based descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in ward. 2 of Gaindakot municipality, using non-probability purposive sampling among 115 participants aged 40-60 years of old. Semi-structured interview schedule was used to collect data. Descriptive and Inferential statistics i.e., Chi-square test done in SPSS version 20 used for analysis.

Results: The study revealed that the majority (69.6%) 80 had high level, 23.7% (27) moderate level and 7.0% (8) had low level of awareness about routine health checkup. About half (50.4%) 58 practiced and 49.6% (57) do not practiced routine health checkup. Among 58 who practiced it, higher proportion (36.2%) 21 followed it 3 monthly, 44.8% (26) preferred government hospital for checkup. “Health concern” (92.3%) followed by “Worry to have chronic or serious illness” 81.0% gave reason as for practicing routine health checkup. “Need not felt” and “unaware about routine checkup” were 2 most common reasons reported as for not practicing routine health checkup (77.2% and 29.8% respectively). Socio-demographic variables like age, sex, religion, ethnicity, educational status, marital status, occupation does not tend to affect the level of education.

Conclusions: This study concludes middle aged people tend to have higher awareness and known about its’ importance however they do not practice it regularly. Hence, more initiative should be given to practice of routine health checkup.

Keywords: Routine health checkup, Middle aged people, Awareness, Practice

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