<![CDATA[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 cardiovasculardiseases on knowledge, attitude and practice among IT professionalsMethodology: 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’sopinion were obtained for the content validity of the tool and interventions. The effectiveness was evaluatedby 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 wellin posttest regarding risk factors of cardiovascular diseases. In the pretest, 88% of participants had a poorattitude and it stooped down to 12 % in posttest regarding CVD. In the pretest, none of the participants hadgood practices in view to prevent cardiovascular diseases.Conclusion: The results show that educational interventions with video were significantly effective inrefining the awareness, attitude, and practices about risk factors of cardiovascular diseases.]]>
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