Diseño de estrategia educativa para modificar factores de riesgo de hipertensión arterial en adultos de dos consultorios del posgrado de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria. Centro de Salud Nº 8. Año 2018.

Abstract

Background: Hypertension is a chronic disease considered one of the main cardiovascular risk factors, being a global health problem. Materials and Methods: An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out in 150 patients diagnosed with hypertension, from clinics 4 and 6 of the health center No.8, in 2018, the information was collected with a ready-made survey by the author and processed with the SPSS program version 22.0. Results: the female sex predominated with 83 (55.3%), the age group of 60 to 64 years with 38 (25.3%), the majority with high school education 76 (50.7%), the worker occupation by account own with 74 (49.3%), predominance marital status married with 62 (41.3%); they self-identified as a mestizo ethnic group with 101 (67.3%). The level of knowledge about risk factors less identified was the diets high in sodium and fats with 87.3% (131); they are inadequately fed with 142 (94.7%), family history of hypertension with 124 (82.7%), no physical exercise with 94 (62.6%), overweight with 83 (55.3%). Conclusions: The prevalence found in hypertension research is mixed women, with high school education, married, working on their own, the highest percentage of hypertensives does not know their disease, and the risk factors that cause it, the strategy would be shaped by talks every fifteen days with a duration of thirty minutes in the health center and with topics of less knowledge.