CompletedNot Applicable

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

Malaysia286 participantsStarted 2020-08-17

Plain-language 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

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. Students who are on long leave
. Students who have dropped out of the course.
. Students who are acutely unwell

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What they're measuring

Knowledge on Hypertension

Timeframe: 1 week

Trial details

NCT IDNCT04451876

SponsorUniversiti Putra Malaysia

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2020-08-24

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