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By: Chetna . and Bindu K.
1Staff nurse, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Punjab Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, Mohali, Punjab, India.
2Associate Professor, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital College of Nursing, Ludhiana, Punjab.
Introduction: Cardiovascular system is the one which supply blood and oxygen to brain so, cardiovascular disease is associated with neurological disorders. Heart diseases frequently has neurological side effects. As many people may not recognize early neurological symptoms. Thus, they may lose important time in presenting for emergency medical treatment. Thus, the objective of present study is to assess the neurological disorders and its awareness among cardiovascular disease patients. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study on neurological disorders and its awareness among 150 CVD patients admitted in Hero DMC Heart Institute, Ludhiana, Punjab, India, were selected by total enumerative sampling technique. Data was collected from CVD patients by calculating sample size with formula 4PQ/D2. The data was collected through checklist to assess the prevalence of neurological disorders and structured questionnaire on awareness of CVD patients regarding neurological disorders through selfreport method. Results: Among 150 CVD patients, 36 patients (24%) were diagnosed with neurological disorders and maximum (62%) were diagnosed with CVA. Among them, 4 CVD patients were with neurological deficit. Among remaining 146 CVD patients, maximum (90.00%) had perceived neurological symptoms, such as stiff muscles (56.29%), restlessness at night time (54.07%), forgetfulness (50.37%) etc. More than half of CVD patients (52.8%) had high level of awareness regarding neurological disorder in terms of prevention, warning signs and timely consultation. It was found that the mean % of awareness regarding timely consultation (3.67± 1.08; 73.4%) of neurological disorders was more among CVD patients. But the presence of neurological disorders was not associated with their awareness(p>0.05). Conclusion: It is concluded that, about 1/4th of CVD patients were with neurological disorder and CVA was most common among them. More than half of patients, were having high level of awareness regarding neurological disorder in terms of prevention, warning signs and timely consultation. The awareness regarding neurological disorders was found to be nonsignificant with presence of neurological disorders(p>0.005).
Keywords: Knowledge; Neurological disorders; CVD patient, Cardiovascular system, Heart diseases.
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