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Knowledge about the health and adherence to preventive measures: gender features. WHO program MONICA-psychosocial
E. Gromova1, D. Panov2, I. Gagulin2, A. Gafarova1, E. Krymov1, V. Gafarov2
1Collaborative laboratory of Cardiovascular Diseases Epidemiology SB RAMS, Novosibirsk, Russia
2NIITPM – branch of Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Complaints about the health
Self-rated Health
Insufficient care about the health
Objective: To explore gender differences in attitude to their health and awareness about cardiovascular risk factors in the open Siberian population aged years.
Methods: Within the framework of WHO program MONICA-psychosocial representative sample of the population in Novosibirsk was examined in 1988 (847 women and 739 men, aged years). We used the questionnaire "Awareness and attitude towards the health".
Results: In population years in Siberia women (89.5% -91%) more often than men (70.5% -74.8%) had complaints to their health. The majority of respondents believed that not enough care of their health. Two-thirds of examined participants consider to ill a serious disease over the next 5-10 years, if not in advance to take preventive measures, and modern medicine can prevent and treat heart disease are just a few. Men are 2-3 times more likely than women were checked by a doctor. Women (53.3%) were more likely to continue working than men (42.7%). More than half of men and women stay home if the disease has been caused by influenza or accompanied by a fever. Most participants in the study believed that a preventive check is useful for health.
Conclusion: Despite the positive motivation in terms of prevention, as well as adequate awareness of CVD risk factors persist negative trends with regard to their own health, both men and women.