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THE RELATIONSHIP OF KNOWLEDGE WITH ANXIETY IN POPULATION WITH THE RISK OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE
Fajaruddin*, Titin Andri Wihastuti, Tina Handayani Nasution and Kumboyono
ABSTRACT
Background: Knowledge is an important factor as part of the promotive and preventive efforts in controlling the development of CHD risk factors in the community and can affect the psychological condition that causes anxiety. Understand and know the health status or risk of disease well, for some people it can cause or increase the anxiety experienced. Conversely, by not knowing or understanding the disease is minimal disease makes a person become calmer and less anxious. Objective: The aim of research to identify the relationship of knowledge with the incidence of anxiety in the population with CHD risk. Methods: The study used observational analytic design with an approach. Cross-sectional respondents numbered 111 people who have risk factors for CHD. The sample is determined by purposive sampling. The study was conducted in the village of Kota Lama District of Kedungkandang Malang, Indonsesia in April and May 2018. Result: There is a significant relationship between knowledge and the incidence of anxiety in the population at risk of CHD with the value of (p= 0.001) and r = 0.321. Conclusion: Knowledge have a significant relationship with the incidence of anxiety in population with the risk of CHD in the village of Kota Lama District of Kedungkandang Malang, Indonsesia.
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