A Study on Knowledge, Awareness, and Medication Adherence in Patients with Hypertension from a Tertiary Care Centre from Northern Sri Lanka

Table 3

Patient’s awareness of hypertension.

Questions	Yes	No	Yes (%)	No (%)
Knowing about having hypertension	261	42	86.1	13.9
Knowing blood pressure values in diagnosing as hypertension	75	228	24.8	75.8
Knowing the values of target personal blood pressure	175	128	57.8	42.2
Controlling of blood pressure reduces your complications	202	101	66.7	33.3
Uncontrolled hypertension can lead to your organ’s damage	146	157	48.2	51.8
Knowing values of blood pressure at recent visit	84	219	27.7	72.3
Thinking that HT is curable condition	284	19	93.7	6.3
Changing your lifestyle helps to lower your blood pressure	208	95	68.6	31.4
Improvement of your blood pressure over the last 12 months	228	75	75.2	24.8