ArticleFrontiers in public health2023
Assessing hypertension and diabetes knowledge, attitudes and practices among residents in Akatsi South District, Ghana using the KAP questionnaire.
Article in Frontiers in public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Knowledge on hypertension among hypertensive stroke survivors in Ghana: A cross-sectional, multicenter study.Equity neuroscience · 2026Article
- Knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding acupuncture among patients with knee osteoarthritis: a path analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Structural model of health-promoting behavior in middle-aged Korean women with hypertension based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills model: a cross sectional study.Women's health nursing (Seoul, Korea) · 2026Article
- Assessment of Food Safety Knowledge and Practices Among Medical Students.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Self-management knowledge, attitudes and practices among persons with type 2 diabetes in Ghana.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2025Article
- Article
- Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding the prevention of intracerebral hemorrhage among hypertensive patients.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Article
- Knowledge, attitude, and practice of cardiovascular disease prevention among patients with type 2 diabetes and/or overweight or obesity.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- A qualitative study on inner experience of self-management behavior among elderly patients with type 2 diabetes in rural areas.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Knowledge, perceptions and practices towards diabetes risk in sub-Saharan Africa: a mixed-methods scoping review.Public health nutrition · 2024Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding cardiovascular disease prevention among middle school students in China: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Development and validation of a nomogram to predict medication risk based on a knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) survey of residents in Shanxi Province, China.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objective: Low awareness of hypertension and diabetes is a public health concern in Ghana. Assessing the general population's behaviour via knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) will be invaluable in these diseases, where prevention and control need a lifelong commitment to a healthy lifestyle. Hence, our goal was to assess the behaviour of Akatsi South residents towards the diseases to assist health providers in implementing tailored intervention programs. Methods: This was a population-based cross-sectional study with 150 adults (18-70 years) from November to December 2021. A semi-structured questionnaire with face-to-face interviews was used to obtain data. All variables in the model had descriptive statistics. The Chi-square ( Results: The respondents' mean age and BMI were 32.40 years (± 12.07) and 24.98 kg/m Conclusion: In the study, we found that the population generally has poor knowledge, which affects their behaviour (attitudes and practices) towards the diseases. To enable healthcare practitioners to reduce disease-associated mortality and morbidity in the future, frequent public health education and promotion about the conditions is critical to closing the knowledge gap.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.