Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Dietary Salt Intake among Nurses Working in a Cardiac Hospital in Bangladesh Sciences

Mondal, Rajib; Sarker, Rajib Chandra; Sayrin, Rumana; Afrin, Rubya; Zaman, K.; Acharya, Narayan; Sultana, Sharmin; Banik, Palash Chandra; Faruque, Mithila; Choudhury, Sohel Reza; Zaman, M Mostafa

doi:10.3329/cardio.v12i1.43420

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“…This could be a main deterrent and a crucial knowledge gap that affect Sri Lanka's efforts to implement the NSRS's aim to reduce population level dietary salt consumption. It was also noted that this finding is compatible with findings of the studies in other LMICs 14, [16][17][18]21 . Furthermore, the indirect estimation of daily dietary salt consumption in our study showed that Sri Lankans consume higher than the daily requirement of salt.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Based on a desk review of published literature on surveys with similar objectives [12][13][14][15][16][17][18] , we developed an interviewer administered multicomponent knowledge, attitude, and practice survey questionnaire on salt and health as an online version using EpiCollect5 free data gathering platform 19 . in the present study, we estimated the approximate amount of per capita dietary salt of the households of adults included in the study by inquiring into the amount of monthly purchases of salt to the households and the number of household members.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Salt and Health: Public awareness, attitudes and practices in Sri Lanka to inform a behavior change communication campaign to reduce dietary salt

Jayatilleke¹,

Gunawardena²,

Silva

et al. 2020

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Background Sri Lankan citizens consume almost double the recommended daily amount of salt. Objective of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices related to health effects of dietary salt among adults and adolescents in Sri Lanka to inform a national behavior change communication campaign. Methods We conducted a descriptive household survey among adults (n=1016) and adolescents (n=505) in 10 districts. An, interviewer administered questionnaire was used for data collection. The approximate amount of dietary salt intake of the individuals was estimated based on household purchases. Findings The recommended salt limit was identified by 40% of the population. Majority, adults (90.8%) and adolescents (86.1%) knew the adverse health effects of high salt intake. Although household monthly purchase of salt indicated consumption is much higher than recommended, 48.3% of adults and 45.9% of adolescents believed that they consume "just the right" amount. Discretionary salt added to home cooking was a major contributor to intake, with approximately half (50%) adding salt when cooking rice, the staple. For health-related information most preferred (adults-72%, adolescents-69%) media is television. Interpretation The study identified gaps as well strengths in knowledge, attitudes and practices of Sri Lankans related to salt and health and recommends that the communication campaign include specific messaging to address gaps and leveraging on strengths. The survey identified adult females to be a key target group for the campaign and television is recommended as the mode of delivery.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Study Instrumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Salt and Health: Public awareness, attitudes and practices in Sri Lanka to inform a behavior change communication campaign to reduce dietary salt

Jayatilleke¹,

Gunawardena²,

Silva

et al. 2020

Preprint

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“…The results indicated that participants' per capita consumption of salt was 9.2 g/day which is almost double the recommended daily requirement of salt. This finding is compatible with the findings of studies in western countries as well as other LMICs where average per capita salt consumption varies from 9 to 12 g/day (14,(16)(17)(18)(20)(21). A reason for this could be that majority of Sri Lankan adults (59.9%) and adolescents (60.4%) were not adequately aware of the recommended daily salt consumption.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…Based on a desk review of published literature on surveys with similar objectives (12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18), we developed an interviewer administered multicomponent knowledge, attitude and practice survey questionnaire on salt and health as an online version using EpiCollect5 free data gathering platform (19). We estimated the approximate per capita dietary salt intake indirectly based on the amount of monthly purchases of salt to the households and calculating per capita salt consumption according to the number of household members consuming the amount of purchased salt.…”

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confidence: 99%

Salt and Health: public awareness, attitudes, and practices in Sri Lanka to inform a behaviour change communication campaign to reduce dietary salt

Jayatilleke¹,

Gunawardena²,

Silva

et al. 2022

J Coll Community Phys Sri Lanka

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Introduction: Sri Lankan citizens consume almost double the recommended daily amount of salt.Objectives: To assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices related to health effects of dietary salt among adults and adolescents in Sri Lanka to inform a national behaviour change communication campaign Methods: We conducted a descriptive household survey among adults (n=1016) and adolescents (n=505) in 10 districts. An interviewer-administered questionnaire was used for data collection. The approximate amount of dietary salt intake of the individuals was estimated based on household purchases. Results:The recommended salt limit was identified by 40% of the population. Majority of adults (90.8%) and adolescents (86.1%) knew the adverse health effects of high salt intake. Although household monthly purchase of salt indicated consumption is much higher than recommended, 48.3% of adults and 45.9% of adolescents believed they consume the right amount of salt. Discretionary salt added to home cooking was a major contributor to intake, while consumption of processed food was also high. For health-related information, most preferred media is television (adults: 72%, adolescents: 69%). Conclusions & Recommendations:The study identified gaps as well as strengths of Sri Lankan's knowledge, attitudes and practices on salt consumption and health. Study recommends a communication campaign that include specific messaging to address gaps and leveraging on strengths. The survey identified adult females to be a key target group for the campaign and television as the best mode of message delivery.

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“…This climatic issue might be an important reason for noticeable CKD prevalence in the non-exposed area. In addition, although the added salt intake behavior during meals has been found significantly higher among the exposed population, however the proportion of this behavior among the exposed population is consistent with the prevalence found from other domestic studies [ 33 – 36 ]. Therefore, the inconsistent proportion of this behavior in the non-exposed population might be due to the underreporting or past use.…”

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confidence: 89%

Association of exposure to salinity in groundwater with chronic kidney disease among diabetic population in Bangladesh

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Globally, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is one of the major public health concerns. CKD and renal failure are reported to be high in the areas with higher salinity, however, the association is still unclear. We aimed at assessing the association of degree of groundwater salinity with CKD among diabetic populations of two selected areas in Bangladesh. This cross-sectional analytic study was carried out among 356 diabetic patients aged 40–60 years in high groundwater salinity exposed Pirojpur (n = 151) and non-exposed Dinajpur (n = 205), the southern and northern districts of Bangladesh, respectively. The primary outcome was the presence of CKD (via estimated glomerular filtration rate <60 ml/min) using Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equation. Binary logistic regression analyses were done. In non-exposed (mean age 51.2±6.9 years) and exposed (mean age 50.8±6.9 years) respondents, men (57.6%) and women (62.9%) were predominant, respectively. The proportion of patients with CKD was found to be higher in the exposed group than that of the non-exposed group (33.1% vs. 26.8%; P 0.199). The odds (OR [95% confidence interval]; P) of CKD were not found to be significantly higher in high salinity exposed respondents (1.35 [0.85–2.14]; 0.199), compared to the non-exposed. However, the odds of hypertension were found to be significantly higher in high salinity exposed respondents (2.10 [1.37–3.23]; 0.001), compared to the non-exposed. And, the interaction of high salinity and hypertension showed a significant association with CKD (P = 0.009). In conclusion, the findings suggest that groundwater salinity may not be directly associated with CKD in southern Bangladesh, however, it may have an indirect association with the disorder through the association of hypertension with groundwater salinity. Further large scaled studies are required to answer the research hypothesis more clearly.

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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Dietary Salt Intake among Nurses Working in a Cardiac Hospital in Bangladesh Sciences

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Salt and Health: Public awareness, attitudes and practices in Sri Lanka to inform a behavior change communication campaign to reduce dietary salt

Salt and Health: Public awareness, attitudes and practices in Sri Lanka to inform a behavior change communication campaign to reduce dietary salt

Salt and Health: public awareness, attitudes, and practices in Sri Lanka to inform a behaviour change communication campaign to reduce dietary salt

Association of exposure to salinity in groundwater with chronic kidney disease among diabetic population in Bangladesh

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