Table 3 Awareness of preventive health care
Variables | N (%) |
|---|---|
Awareness | |
No | 51 (13) |
Yes | 330 (87) |
Source of awareness | |
Mass media | 113 (30) |
Social media | 114 (30) |
Health workers | 141 (37) |
Family friends | 99 (26) |
Religious/Community leaders | 20 (5) |
Others | 44 (12) |
Preferred aspect of Preventive healthcare | |
Intervention aimed at preventing a disease before they occur | 348 (91) |
Interventions aimed at reducing disease or injury impact | 182 (48) |
Interventions aimed at ameliorating the impact of ongoing disease or injury with long lasting effect | 163 (43) |
Preventive health care components | |
Preventive health check-ups/physical exams | 318 (83) |
Regular age related screening tests | 259 (68) |
Lifestyle-related advice like diet/nutritional counseling | 277 (73) |
Facilities for exercising like gym or park | 239 (63) |
Stress-relieving techniques like Yoga | 201 (53) |
Routine vaccinations | 260 (68) |
Others | 4 (1) |
Preventive health checkup interval | |
6 monthly | 138 (36) |
Annually | 122 (32) |
Every 5 years | 4 (1) |
Every 2 years | 20 (5) |
Never | 97 (25) |
Participant preventive health care measures | |
Immunization | 181 (48) |
Insecticide treated net | 114 (30) |
Exercise | 232 (61) |
Dieting | 155 (41) |
Stress management | 116 (30) |
Weight control | 131 (34) |
Yoga | 16 (4) |
Prophylaxis | 27 (7) |