Abstract:
Purpose: To find out the demographic profile of stroke patients attended at CRP,
Bangladesh. Objective:The aim of this study was to find out the socio-demographic
characteristics of stroke patients.Methodology: The study design was cross-sectional.
Seventy samples were selected as purposive sampling from Physiotherapy Neurology
outdoor patient at CRP. A mixed type of questionnaire was used to collect data.Data
was collected by a standard questionnaire and it was analyzed by SPSS software
version 16.0 and descriptive statistics by using table, pie chart and bar chart. Results:
Highest prevalence of stroke was between the 5th and 6th decade (37.3%). More
affected patients were male (71%). Patients came from both urban (47%) and rural
(53%) areas and most of them belong to the low-income group (56%). In occupational
category; service holder (20%) and businessman (26%) were the highest groups. Most
of the study subjects were literate (91%) among them (26%) were primary, (23%)
were S.S.C, (16%) were H.S.C and (27%) were bachelor or above. Data analysis
indicated hypertension as major factor associate with stroke. Seventy nine percent of
the patients had hypertension. The present study detected diabetes in 14% patients.
Fifty seven percent of the study subjects were smoker, 31% patients had family history of stroke. Data analysis indicated that the prevalence of ischaemic stroke was
87% and hemorrhagic stroke 13%. Conclusion: This study found that hypertension,
cigarette smoking and diabetes mellitus are the major factors associates with stroke in
our community as well as other socio-demographic factor. While other risk factors
demand further study.
