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Social Media Use ,Online Health Information Seeking and Knowledge on Hypertension

NCT04451876 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 286

Last updated 2020-11-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The percentage of hypertension among adults aged 18 is relatively high which is about 30% in Malaysia. Uncontrolled hypertension will increase the risk of diseases especially cardiovascular disease. However, adults still lack awareness about the importance of knowledge of hypertension. In between, online health information seeking and the use of social media to gather health information have been quite a norm among students. The wide use of this platform has been proven in various researches and studies.

This study will be conducted among the undergraduate students in FMHS, UPM to look at the various socio-demographic factors associated with their level of knowledge on hypertension. Therefore, this may lead to a need to plan awareness programs on hypertension and to increase the knowledge of hypertension among health science students in the future. A cross-sectional study design will be done for this study. All undergraduate students in FMHS, UPM will be selected through simple random sampling. Online questionnaires will be given via the selected student email platform.

However, there are limitations for this study where we only focus on the students of FMHS, UPM. Hence, the results of this study may be limited to them only. The causal relationship cannot be determined by this study design as well. The purpose of this study is to determine the social media use, online health information seeking practices with knowledge on hypertension among undergraduate students in FMHS, UPM, and its associated factors

Conditions

  • Hypertension
  • Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  • Social Behavior

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universiti Putra Malaysia

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-08-17
Primary Completion
2020-08-24
Completion
2020-10-30

Countries

  • Malaysia

Study Locations

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Diseases

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