Community health care workers knowledge on hypertension and diabetes in a mountainous province in Vietnam

  • Hoang Thi Hai Van
  • Nguyen Phuong Hoa
  • Pham Phuong Mai
  • Dinh Linh Trang
Từ khóa: Hypertension, diabetes, general practitioner, commune health stations

Tóm tắt

Objective: This study aims to describe the knowledge of health care workers at commune health stations about hypertension and diabetes in Ha Giang province in 2019;

Methods: We conducted an analyze data from the suvey of pre-training course evaluation data.

Results: The proportion of health care workers who had good knowledge about the diagnosis and treatment target of hypertension was 60.8% and 55.9%, respectively. The proportion of health care workers who had correct answers on the diagnosis criteria of diabetes was 29.4%, and the target of HbA1C diabetes was 25.5%, and detecting kidney complications accounted for only 14.7%. Age and seniority were closely related to the level of knowledge among these health care workers. Younger health care workers (<35yrs) are likely have better knowledge on diagnostic criteria, treatment goals and medication treatment of hypertension. Health care workers who has less working time (<10 years) are likely to have better knowledge on dianostic criteria for hypertension.

Conclusions: The result indicated that the knowledge among health care workers at commune health stations on hypertension and diabetes were not high. Therefore, organizing continuous training courses to regularly update knowledge for old and senior health care workers at commune level is a critical intervention in improving the quality of diagnosis, treatment and management of hypertension and diabetes at the facility.

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2022-08-30