OPPERTUNISTIC HYPERTENSION SCREENING IN RURAL HEALTH POPULATION OF UMAR ABAD TEHSIL KHAREZAT DISRTRICT PISHIN BALOCHISTAN. A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY

Objective: To improve the information about hypertension control in the adult population. Material and Methods: This was descriptive cross-sectional survey based study conducted at rural healthcare centre, Umar Abad, tehsil, karezat, district, Pishin, Balochis tan, Pakistan. Information was collected from the outpatients who visit the rural health center, throughout the examination span, age ranging from (≥18 years) old giving the hypertension by filling self-administrated surveys. The data was collected by two research assistants. Blood pressure was measured by auscultation, using the standardized sphygmomanometer. Blood pressure was measured in the desk posture by a fitting sized handcuff around the arm. Related sample Friedman's two-way analysis of variance by rank test was performed and (p<0.005) considered as sufficient. The data interpreted and analyzed. Result: The total 198 study respondents were seeing out of which males was 143 (72.2%) and females was 55 (27.2%). Most of the respondents were in the age group between 18-25 years were 92 (46.5%). Respondents were replies yes 143 (72.2%) to the question “Have you ever had your blood pressure taken?”, the 81 (40.9%) of the respondents replied, “not before today” to statement “When were you diagnosed to have hypertension?”. Conclusion: This investigation was inferred that the woman's respondents were on more risk than men's. In any case, most of the examination respondents were not hypertensive and they have not determined to have hypertension before and the greater part of the hypertensive respondents didn't know about their hypertension. Keywords: Hypertension, screening, rural healthcare center, Pishin, Balochistan.