@article{Afzal_Ahmad_2013, title={Psychosocial Risk Factors Associated with Hypertension in Females of 18 – 49 Years in a Community of Faisalabad}, volume={18}, url={https://www.annalskemu.org/journal/index.php/annals/article/view/369}, DOI={10.21649/akemu.v18i1.369}, abstractNote={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><strong>Objective:</strong>  The objective of the study was to deter-mine the psychosocial risk factors associated with hypertension in females of 18 - 49 years in a commu-nity of Faisalabad in Punjab.</p><p><strong>Study Design:</strong>  Population based case control study.</p><p><strong>Place and Duration of the Study:</strong>  The study was conducted in population of 10,240 females aged 18 - 49 living in union council 227 Faisalabad  from Sep-tember 2010 to March 2011.</p><p><strong>Methodology:  </strong>The simple random sampling was done to identify the union councils and then study sub-jects. The cases and controls were selected among the females according to the sample size and sample sele-ction criteria.</p><p><strong>Results:  </strong>The frequency distribution and calculation of statistics showed the mean age 33.5 years, standard deviation 6.517, standard error = 0.461. In bivariate analysis the psychosocial factor that were found more significantly associated with hypertension were poor family bondage (OR 1.96, 95% CI 1.01 - 3.8) and joint family system (OR 0.483, 95% CI 0.248 - 0.942). It was observed that after controlling for all the factors studied the statistically significant association was exhibited by poor family bondage (OR = 8.846, 95% CI 1.865 - 41.944) and lack of physical exercise (OR 2.283, 95% CI 1.82 - 2.94).</p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong>  The hypertension in females aged 18 - 49 years in an urban community of Faisalabad was associated with poor social bondage and lack of phy-sical exercise. Thus awareness programs should be initiated to decrease the risk factors.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Key Words:  </strong>Hypertension, psychosocial, dietary factors.</p> <br /> <!--[endif]--><p> </p>}, number={1}, journal={Annals of King Edward Medical University}, author={Afzal, Saira and Ahmad, Maaz}, year={2013}, month={May}, pages={12} }