"a Study to Assess the Knowledge Regarding Treatment Adherence to Preserve Well-being Among Patients Underwent Abdominal Surgery at a Selected Hospital, Mangaluru"
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Surgery is the branch of medicine that deals with the physical manipulation of a bodily structure to diagnose, prevent, or cure a disease. Initially, surgical techniques were developed to treat injuries and trauma. Ambroise Paré, a 16th-century French surgeon, described the essence of surgery. Objectives: To assess the knowledge regarding treatment adherence to preserve well–being among patients underwent abdominal surgery to find the association between knowledge score and socio-demographical variables such as age, gender, religion, marital status, educational qualification, occupation, dietary habits, monthly income, residential area, social habits, and source of information. Materials and Methods: A non-experimental descriptive study. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 30 underwent abdominal surgery Data was collected using a self-structured knowledge questionnaire. The study findings revealed that among 30 patient underwent abdominal surgery.4(13%) had inadequate knowledge, 24(80%) had moderate knowledge and 2(7%) had adequate knowledge regarding patient underwent abdominal surgery.
Authors: Ms. Sahana Naik, Dr. G. Prathiba, Dr. R. Kanagavalli
Language: English
Subfield: Family Practice
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7089164633
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