标题：Assessment of knowledge on cardiovascular disease risk factors by postal survey in residents of Małopolska Voivodeship. Małopolska CArdiovascular PReventive Intervention Study (M-CAPRI)
期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2017
卷号：24
期号：2
页码：201-206
DOI：10.5604/12321966.1228400
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Introduction. Education is a key tool in the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Education programmes requiremonitoring of their effectiveness.Objectives. 1) to introduce postal screening for the assessment of knowledge on CVD risk factors (RFs) for the Polishpopulation, 2) to assess this knowledge in adult residents of Małopolska Voivodeship, and 3) to assess whether knowledgeon RFs is related to age, gender, place of residence, level of education and family history of CVD.Materials and method. Anonymous questionnaires were posted to a random sample of 5,000 residents of MałopolskaVoivodeship in Poland. Results were presented as proportions of participants who listed RFs correctly. A series of multiplelogistic regression models was used to assess the associations of knowledge on RFs with the potential determinants.Results. 1,126 completed questionnaires were returned. Over 35% of respondents could not list a single RF and 14 % listedonly 1–2 RFs. About 40% named 3–5 and only 12% listed 6 or more RFs. About a half of the respondents listed incorrectlyfrom 1–8 characteristics as being associated with higher risk of CVD. In the multivariate analysis, knowledge on RFs wasnot significantly associated with age. Level of education was the strongest determinant of knowledge. Male rural and smalltown residents had less knowledge, whereas women with a family history of CVD had more knowledge on some CVD RFs.Conclusions. Using a postal questionnaire for the assessment of knowledge of CVD RFs in the population of MałopolskaVoivodeship appeared to have serious limitations due to low participation in the study. Despite this, the results of the studyindicate that knowledge on CVD RFs is insufficient. Female gender and higher education were related to more prevalentknowledge on RFs. Family history of CVD was related to better knowledge in women only. Male residents of rural areas andsmall towns had slightly less knowledge on CVD RFs.
关键词：cardiovascular disease; health knowledge; risk factors; postal survey
