Survey on the Awareness of Hypertension Knowledge of Residents in Suzhou Industrial Park

[Objective]To understand the awareness of hypertension knowledge and its influence factors among residents in Suzhou Industrial Park community, and provide evidence for the disease intervention.[Methods]Multi-stage random sampling method was adopted to perform epidemiological survey and physical examination on 13 058 people in 7 communities of Suzhou Industrial Park. The influencing factors were analyzed by unconditional logistic regression.[Results]The awareness of hypertension knowledge was 81.19% among local residents, the rate in urban area was higher than rural area, male was higher than female, and the rate of people with higher education levels and monthly income was higher than that of others. The main influencing factors were sex, education level, different community, medical insurance, monthly income, family history of hypertension, and OR value was 0.900, 1.547, 2.814, 1.498, 1.157 and 1.569 respectively.[Conclusion]The awareness rate of hypertension knowledge of residents in Suzhou Industrial Park needs to be improve, especially for rural female residents with lower educational levels, lower monthly income and no health insurance.