Satish Kumar B P|Mohammed Zuber|Anwitha Johns|Vinod Kumar S.V.
Knowledge and attitude of rural community towards the respiratory diseases
background respiratory diseases considered one major public health problems developing countries like india among illness adults heart cancer diabetes chronic lung diseases major cause mortality morbidity india since majority indian population resides rural areas assessment knowledge attitude region regarding respiratory diseases essentialmethods descriptive study conducted using restructured pretested questionnaire assess knowledge attitude rural people descriptive statistics used represent study characteristics chisquare test used assess association among study variables pvalue lt005 statistically significantresults total 467 participants enrolled study 394 male 606 female mean age participants 447161 years majority participants belongs age group 3847 years overall knowledge participants found poor 6 average 495 good 445 statistically significant association literacy level knowledge respiratory diseases foundconclusions although knowledge attitude people towards respiratory diseases encouraging need long term educational program findings study guide public health authorities making implementing decisions reduce health problems related respiratory diseases