Studying the Knowledge and Practice of Residents of Bushehr Province Regarding Risk factors of Cardiovascular Diseases and their Prevention Strategies in Bushehr 2016.

Improving the knowledge and Practices of the residents has a significant impact on the quality of care provided by them. this study was conducted with the aim of determining the knowledge and practice of Residents of Bushehr Province Regarding Risk factors of cardiovascular diseases and their prevention strategies in Bushehr province in 2016.Practice.

This is a descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study. The researched population was the Residents in the health centers of Bushehr province (391 people) who were included in the study by census method.  The demographic information, knowledge, and practices questionnaires were used by the self-report method. After entering the SPSS 19 statistical software, the data were analyzed using Descriptive and analytical tests (Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, and Pearson correlation coefficient).

The Results showed that 62.42% (244 people) people had good knowledge, 35.54% (139 people) had average knowledge, and 2.04% (8 people) had poor knowledge. Also, most of the people had good performance, 86.68% (338 people), 10.74% (42 people) had average performance, and 2.58% (11 people) had poor performance. The lowest and highest knowledge and practice are in the area of (smoking and blood pressure) and (smoking and diabetes).

Our study showed that the average score of the knowledge and practices of residents regarding the control of cardiovascular disease is higher than the average score. Considering the priority of educational needs in the field of knowledge and practices, which is related to the knowledge of Residents about the risk factor of tobacco and the Practices of Residents in the field of encouraging patients to be more physically active, Therefore, it is recommended to design and implement retraining courses for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases and the risk factors.