Knowledge, Attitude Referred to Health Centers on Salt Intake (brief Report)
Year: 2012
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Background and purpose: Too much salt cardiovascular and renal complications related to heart disease are a disease. Given the importance of knowledge and attitude of conserving salt Therefore this study was done to survey of knowledge, attitude, about salt intake in referring to health centers of Sari. Materials and methods: This study was descriptive and analytic. The sample size of this study 416 person of referring to health centers of Sari. The sample was selected by tow stage randomization method as: first 5 health center was selected by random between all health centers of Sari Township and the second stage the studied person was selected by random. Study tools were questioner and the data was collected by trained raters. At last the data was analyzed by use of 16 version of SPSS software and the appropriate statistical methods were used in these analysis. Results: The results showed that the average score of 53.67 percent attitude and 37.69% and the 47.4 percent. The average household salt was 12.8 grams and in the study, the relationship between the knowledge age and sex were not found to be significantly (P>0.05). The attitude of the marital relationship is statistically significant (P= 0.01). But significant relationship was found between attitudes to sex. Conclusion: With respect the results of this study, amount of salt consumption in this population was high. Therefore Health education about salt consumption is necessary.
Language: English
Topic: Sodium Intake and Health
Subfield: Nutrition and Dietetics
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2151759146