"A STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING TREATMENT ADHERENCE TO PRESERVE WELL-BEING AMONG PATIENTS UNDERWENT ABDOMINAL SURGERY AT A SELECTED HOSPITAL, MANGALURU"

Surgery is the branch of medicine that deals with the physical manipulation of a bodily structure to diagnose, prevent, or cure a disease. Initially, surgical techniques were developed to treat injuries and trauma. Ambroise Paré, a 16th-century French surgeon, described the essence of surgery. Objectives: To assess the knowledge regarding treatment adherence to preserve well–being among patients underwent abdominal surgery to find the association between knowledge score and socio-demographical variables such as age, gender, religion, marital status, educational qualification, occupation, dietary habits, monthly income, residential area, social habits, and source of information. Materials and Methods: A non-experimental descriptive study. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 30 underwent abdominal surgery Data was collected using a self-structured knowledge questionnaire. The study findings revealed that among 30 patient underwent abdominal surgery.4(13%) had inadequate knowledge, 24(80%) had moderate knowledge and 2(7%) had adequate knowledge regarding patient underwent abdominal surgery.