Abstract
Objective: This study aimed to assess hospital pharmacists knowledge of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and their practice of primary prevention of CVD. Design and method: This was a prospective cross sectional survey of all the Hospital pharmacists in Federal Medical Centre Lokoja (FMCL), and Kogi State Specialist Hospital (KSSH) both in Lokoja L.G.A of Kogi State Nigeria. A Questionnaire on diagnostic cut-off for common cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and practice of primary prevention of CVD was used for the study. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS for windows, Version 16.0. SPSS Inc. 2007.Chicago, USA) software was used for data analysis. Continuous data were presented as mean ± standard deviation while categorical data were presented as percentages and frequencies. Results: About half, 20(46.5) of the hospital pharmacist were less than 40 years with a mean age of 43.44 years. The hospital pharmacist had poor knowledge of diagnostic cut-off for common cardiovascular disease risk factors. Also, the hospital pharmacists had poor practice of primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Age, gender and years of practice were associated with knowledge of CVD risk factors while age alone was associated with practice of primary prevention of CVD. Conclusions: Hospital pharmacists have a poor knowledge of CVD risk factors and also a poor practice of primary prevention of CVD.
Highlights
In Nigeria, hypertension has become an important health problem
Oral and written consent were obtained from the pharmacists who agreed to participate in this study Eligibility criteria: All the registered pharmacists in Federal Medical Centre Lokoja (FMCL) and Kogi State Specialist Hospital (KSSH) who agree to participate were included in the study
This study shows that a majority of the hospital pharmacists were less than 50 years old with a mean age of 43.33years
Summary
In Nigeria, hypertension has become an important health problem. The burden of hypertension has been on the increase because of the increasing adult population and change in lifestyles of Nigerians (Ogah et al 2012). Research data has shown that there is a rising trend of cardiovascular disease and trend in Nigeria (Oguanobi et al 2013). During the last two decades, there has been a rise in the number of prevalence studies regarding hypertension and other non-communicable diseases (Ekpenyong et al 2012). This study aimed to assess hospital pharmacists’ knowledge of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and their practice of primary prevention of CVD. This was a prospective cross sectional survey of all the Hospital pharmacists in Federal Medical Centre Lokoja (FMCL), and Kogi State Specialist Hospital (KSSH) both in Lokoja L.G.A of Kogi State Nigeria. Continuous data were presented as mean± standard deviation while categorical data were presented as percentages and frequencies
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