Effectiveness of Video-Assisted Teaching Program Regarding Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Diseases on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice among IT Professionals.

Background: Hypertension is one of the primarily responsible factions for causing cardiovascular diseases, significantly, which results in heart diseases such as stroke, myocardial infarction, and finally leads to death. Objective: To assess the effectiveness of video-assisted intervention regarding risk factors of cardiovascular diseases on knowledge, attitude and practice among IT professionals Methodology: A quantitative research approach was executed in the current study. The preexperimental, one group pretest posttest design was used in the study. Experts of medical surgical nursing and physician's opinion were obtained for the content validity of the tool and interventions. The effectiveness was evaluated by a self-structured questionnaire for knowledge, attitude, and practice before and after the intervention. Data was compiled and analysis was done by using inferential and descriptive statistics. Results: In the pretest, no participant had good knowledge, whereas 92 % of the participants had gained well in posttest regarding risk factors of cardiovascular diseases. In the pretest, 88% of participants had a poor attitude and it stooped down to 12 % in posttest regarding CVD. In the pretest, none of the participants had good practices in view to prevent cardiovascular diseases. Conclusion: The results show that educational interventions with video were significantly effective in refining the awareness, attitude, and practices about risk factors of cardiovascular diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]