Diseño de estrategia educativa sobre factores de riesgo de hipertensión arterial en pacientes adultos hipertensos de dos consultorios del Centro de Salud Enrique Ponce Luque. Año 2018.

Abstract

Background: High blood pressure should be considered as a priority health problem worldwide, prevention is the most important and least expensive measure; Its treatment is based on acting on the influential factors and decreasing morbidity and mortality. Materials and Methods: The study was of observational, descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional type with the objective of designing an educational strategy to identify the knowledge about the risk factors of hypertension in a population of 107 patients from two medical offices of the center. health Enrique Ponce Luque. Results: The predominant age group was 55 to 64 years old (48.5%), female sex 64 (59.8%), high school education (36.5%), housewife occupation (29.9%), married (44.9%) . About the risk factors of hypertension is unknown in one (71.1%), ignorance about smoking and alcohol consumption (64.5%), ignorance about sedentary lifestyle (63.5%), ignorance about inadequate diet (60.8%) , knowledge about the ethnic group (66.3%), knowledge about the familiar pathological background (57.1%), lack of knowledge as a noncommunicable chronic disease (64.5%), lack of knowledge about their symptoms (76.7%), lack of knowledge about their diagnosis (55.1%) , ignorance about their blood pressure figures (58.9%). The components of the strategy received the information through talks (71.0%), every 15 days (85.1%), one hour (55.1%), 11 to 20 people (57.9%), in the mornings (72.9%). Conclusions: There is a lack of knowledge about the risk factors of hypertension in adult hypertensive patients, which makes the elaboration of the educational strategy pertinent.