Evaluation of Medical Faculty Students’ Knowledge About Hypertension

Abstract

The incidence of hypertension is increasing day by day in all age groups. In order to combat the negative situations experienced with the increase, doctors who are aware of the problem should catch up. As the health professionals of the future, it is important to raise the awareness of hypertension and knowledge levels of young medical school students. The aim of our study is to measure the awareness and knowledge levels of medical school students.

Our study was conducted by inviting all 1527 students studying at Sivas Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Medicine to the survey. Only 105 of the students agreed to participate in the survey. The questionnaire consists of 5 sections and various questions were asked from general information to physical examination.

The results obtained show that there is a generally sufficient level of knowledge about hypertension among medical school students. Dec. However, it turned out that students have incomplete knowledge in some specific areas and need more education on this issue. For example, the level of knowledge on subjects such as the use of cuffs in blood pressure measurement, the method of measuring blood pressure in the presence of arrhythmia was found to be lower. By examining these data, it is seen that the level of knowledge of students about hypertension and related subjects increases as the semesters progress.