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Health Strategy and Policy Institute, Vietnam MoH
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-11-2019
DOI: 10.1111/ADD.14447
Publisher: F1000 Research Ltd
Date: 21-03-2023
DOI: 10.12688/OPENRESEUROPE.14415.2
Abstract: Background: Non-communicable diseases, specifically the burden of hypertension, have become a major public health threat to low- and middle-income countries, such as Myanmar. Inadequate knowledge of hypertension and its management among people may hinder its effective prevention and treatment with some groups at particular increased risks, but evidence on this is lacking for Myanmar. The aims of this study were therefore to assess the level of knowledge of risk factors, symptoms and complications of hypertension, by hypertension treatment status, community group-membership, and sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors in Myanmar. Methods: Data was collected through structured questionnaires in 2020 on a random s le of 660 participants, stratified by region and existence of community groups. Knowledge of hypertension was measured with the ‘Knowledge’ part of a validated ‘Knowledge, Attitude and Practice’ survey questionnaire and categorised into ill-informed and reasonably to well-informed about hypertension. Results: The majority of respondents seem reasonably to well-informed about risk factors, symptoms and complications of hypertension. This did not vary by hypertension treatment status and community group membership. People with jobs (B=0.96 95%-confidence interval 0.343 to 1.572) and higher education (B=1.96 0.060 to 3.868) had more hypertension knowledge than people without jobs or low education. Adherence to treatment among hypertensive people was low. Conclusion: This study shows a majority of participants in this study in Myanmar seem reasonably to well-informed, with no differences by hypertension status, treatment status, and community group-membership. People without jobs and low education have less hypertension knowledge, making them priority groups for tailored education on health care level as well as community level, lowering the burden of hypertension. Almost half of the hypertensive patients did not take their medicines and therefore, adherence to treatment of hypertension should be an important element for future health education.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-02-2019
DOI: 10.1111/DAR.12909
Abstract: Alcohol-related harm reduction may target in iduals, their households or communities. This study investigates the prevalence of and socioeconomic inequalities in alcohol use and alcohol-related consequences (injury, accident, property loss and interpersonal violence) at the family-level. A cross-sectional survey of 2394 households was conducted in eight provinces from six socioeconomic regions and two metropolitan cities in Vietnam. Family-level alcohol use and injury were computed from in idual data, while other measures were on a household basis. Unstandardised and indirectly standardised concentration index was used to measure degree of expenditure-based inequality in alcohol use and its consequences. Over the previous 12 months, 88.5% and 46.2% of households had at least one current-drinker and one heavy episodic drinking person, and in 41.7% the heavy episodic drinking person was the breadwinner. About 5.3% of households suffered alcohol-related injury, accident or property loss 11.4% reported alcohol-related interpersonal violence. Poor and near-poor households suffered the double-burdens of both having heavy episodic drinking person and alcohol-related harm. A modest socioeconomic gradient was observed with all types of drinker, more concentrated among higher living-standard households, especially in urban areas. However, there was a persistent high-level inequality disadvantaging lower living-standard families, especially in rural areas, in suffering all measured alcohol-related harms. Alcohol use and alcohol-related consequences are highly prevalent in Vietnam. Lower socioeconomic households, especially in rural areas, are important target groups for alcohol-related harm prevention and reduction interventions. The concentration index appeared to be a useful measure of inequalities in alcohol-related harms.
Publisher: Akademiai Kiado Zrt.
Date: 05-10-2021
Abstract: Vietnam implemented numerous measures to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 among school students, including study-at-home/self-quarantine. During the study-at-home period, adolescents may engage in more video gaming than usual, potentially contributing to gaming disorder. However, the regionally-representative prevalence of gaming disorder and its association with parenting practice and discipline practice have not been described. We assessed the prevalence of gaming disorder among Vietnamese adolescents during the initial 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associations between gaming disorder and parenting practice and discipline practice. We conducted a school-based, self-administered cross-sectional survey of 2,084 students in Hanoi, Vietnam (response rate = 97.1%). The survey included standardized instruments translated from English to Vietnamese. We performed multilevel logistic regressions to assess the associations between parenting practice, discipline practice, and gaming disorder. The prevalence of gaming disorder among the respondents was 11.6%. Healthy parent-child relationship was protective against gaming disorder (Adj OR = 0.36 95% CI = 0.21, 0.62). Non-supervision, non-discipline, violent discipline were positively associated with gaming disorder. We found associations between gaming disorder and parent-child relationship, parental supervision, and parental discipline. Future interventional studies should consider assessing the effect of fostering healthy parent-child relationships and appropriate discipline on the occurrence or prognosis of gaming disorders.
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