STUDY TO ASSESS THE PREVALENCE OF STROKE IN THE KATTANKULATHUR BLOCK OF KANCHEEPURAM DISRICT, TAMIL NADU, INDIA.

Abstract

Stroke is a non-communicable disease with significant socioeconomic consequence worldwide. According to a
release by the World Health Organization (WHO) stroke accounts for 10.8% mortality and 3.1% of disease
burden worldwide . Commonly observed deficits after stroke are loss of motor control on affected side, cognitive
and perceptual dysfunction, speech and communication problems and dependent in functional activities. There
are very less data available on prevalence of stroke in Tamil Nadu. Such data are important for providing
rehabilitation services in community setting. The study is aimed to determine the prevalence of stroke in the
kattankulathur block. This is population based descriptive survey study and the investigator carried out door to
door survey with help of Stroke symptom questionnaire. In addition to door to door to survey stroke patients was
collected from other resources also. All the identified patients were cross examined with CT and MRI. The
results indicated that The Prevalence of stroke patient in kattankulathur block was (257/197596)* 100000 =
130 per lakh, 1 out of 769 population affected by stroke. Males are more affected then females, left hemiplegics
are more than right and hypertension was predominant cause of stroke. The result from this study help us to
assess the rehabilitative need and to estimate the burden on stroke in rural area. The the data was analyzed
using Descriptive statistics (SPSS- version 19).The Prevalence of stroke patient in kattankulathur block was
calculated using the formula Total number of stroke patients divided by total population Multiplied by 1000