Adherencia al tratamiento en adultos hipertensos: propuesta de intervención integral. Santa Rosa - El Oro, 2016.
In Ecuador, like other Latin American countries, Arterial hypertension (HT) is found in the five causes of death. The adherence behavior to the treatments is one of the most important indicators to evaluate in people with risk factors for cardiovascular health, as non-adherence leads to high rates o...
| Autor: | |
|---|---|
| Tipo de recurso: | tesis de maestría |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de Loja |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio Universidad Nacional de Loja |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dspace.unl.edu.ec:123456789/18161 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://dspace.unl.edu.ec/jspui/handle/123456789/18161 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | HIPERTENSIÓN ARTERIAL ADHERENCIA TERAPÉUTICA FUNCIONALIDAD FAMILIAR |
| Sumario: | In Ecuador, like other Latin American countries, Arterial hypertension (HT) is found in the five causes of death. The adherence behavior to the treatments is one of the most important indicators to evaluate in people with risk factors for cardiovascular health, as non-adherence leads to high rates of mortality. This research has a social relevance because of its prevalence in our community that constitutes a public health problem and it is precisely with the family doctor and health team follow-up, they can value and dispensarize all those individuals with risk factors for Monitoring, control and execution of educational, promotional, prevention and rehabilitation activities. The objective of the present investigation was to evaluate the effect of the integral intervention in the adherence to the treatment and the level of knowledge on hypertension in hypertension. We performed a quantitative research with a pure experimental design with pretest, posttest and a control group in hypertensive patients aged 45 years and older belonging to the nesting center Santa Teresita in the city of Santa Rosa province of El Oro, in 2016. The sample was selected in a non-probabilistic manner consisting of 100 patients, 50 patients for the control group and 50 patients for the intervention group. Adherence to treatment in hypertensive patients before the intervention was 80%, compared to 88%, which reached adherence after the intervention in the same group, with a P value of <0.005. The level of knowledge about AHT before the intervention only 56% had a high degree of knowledge, after applying the experiment was reached 98% with a value of P <0.005. The intervention was effective both in adherence to treatment as in the level of knowledge about HT Key words: Hypertension, adherence to treatment, level of knowledge, adults. |
|---|