Mohamed Hassan Elnaem|Nur Hasyimah Kamarudin|Nabeel Kashan Syed|Hasniza Zaman Huri|Inderpal Singh Dehele|Ejaz Cheema
Associations between Socio-Demographic Factors and Hypertension Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Findings from Malaysia
International Islamic University Malaysia|International Islamic University Malaysia|Jazan University|University of Malaya|University of Birmingham|University of Management and Technology
perspectives hypertensive patients state hypertension control ongoing pandemic restrictions extensively studied malaysia therefore study aimed assess impact sociodemographic factors health literacy adherence overall hypertension management group malaysian hypertensive patients covid19 pandemic anonymous online crosssectional study conducted three months involved group malaysian adults hypertension validated selfadministered 30item questionnaire prepared malay english languages google forms link distributed participants social media facebook whatsapp following survey validation pilot study 30 participants met inclusion criteria carried total scores health literacy adherence pandemic impact hypertension control calculated compared across independent variables total 144 study participants controlled blood pressure reported 77 n 111 good levels adherence health literacy scores moderate levels pandemic impact scores total adherence scores showed statistically significant difference age groups 2 648 p 0039 reported controlled uncontrolled blood pressure u 1116 p 0001 moreover analysis revealed statistically significant differences total pandemic impact scores based age group 2 15008 p 0001 household income 2 6887 p 0032 employment u 1712 p 0006 marital status u 5205 p lt 0001 youngest age group 1839 years lowest income group unemployed unmarried individuals significantly higher pandemic impact scores denotes individuals prone negatively affected pandemic regarding hypertension management participants reported relatively controlled blood pressure good levels health literacy well adherence amidst pandemic moderate extent study participants perceived pandemic negative effect hypertension management perceived negative impact pandemic attributed several sociodemographic factors age household income employment marital status