Educational intervention on knowledge level about arterial hypertension in non-hypertensive adults
<p><strong>Foundation:</strong> high blood pressure constitutes the most important medical problem in contemporary medicine, so health promotion plays an important role in its prevention.<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to describe the knowledge level about arter...
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| author | Dayme Rodríguez Fumero Taimí Figueredo Pérez Marisela García de la Torre Dianelys Díaz Poma Yaima Montalvo Hernández Zenaida María Rivero Quesada |
| author_facet | Dayme Rodríguez Fumero Taimí Figueredo Pérez Marisela García de la Torre Dianelys Díaz Poma Yaima Montalvo Hernández Zenaida María Rivero Quesada |
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| description | <p><strong>Foundation:</strong> high blood pressure constitutes the most important medical problem in contemporary medicine, so health promotion plays an important role in its prevention.<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to describe the knowledge level about arterial hypertension in non-hypertensive adults.<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> an educational intervention study was carried out in the family doctor's office No. 7 of the Ernesto Guevara de la Serna polyclinic, Cienfuegos, from February 2021 to November 2023. The universe consisted of 311 non-hypertensive adult patients and the sample by 90 randomly chosen patients who met the inclusion criteria. The analyzed variables were : age, sex, knowledge about the definition of high blood pressure, its risk factors, knowledge about clinical manifestations, complications and knowledge about prevention measures.<br /><strong>Results:</strong> the 50 - 59 year old group and the female sex predominated, 71.11% of the participants demonstrated inadequate knowledge about the definition of arterial hypertension, before the intervention 87.77% of the sample did not know the clinical manifestations, Regarding the level of knowledge about the complications of high blood pressure in 96.66 % of the sample it was inadequate and 72.2% also had inadequate knowledge about prevention measures. All these parameters were overcome after the educational intervention carried out.<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> the greatest percentage of patients had inadequate knowledge on the subject, the educational intervention allowed them to be modified.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c242b2a29f9d4fc48496f6ea70472c8f2025-01-30T21:29:03ZspaCentro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. CienfuegosMedisur1727-897X2024-09-012258708782547Educational intervention on knowledge level about arterial hypertension in non-hypertensive adultsDayme Rodríguez Fumero0Taimí Figueredo Pérez1Marisela García de la Torre2Dianelys Díaz Poma3Yaima Montalvo Hernández4Zenaida María Rivero Quesada5Policlínico Docente Ernesto Guevara de la Serna. Cienfuegos, Cuba.Policlínico Docente Ernesto Guevara de la Serna. Cienfuegos, Cuba.Policlínico Docente Juan J. Apolinaire Pennini. Cienfuegos, Cuba.Policlínico Docente Ernesto Guevara de la Serna. Cienfuegos, Cuba.Policlínico Docente José Luis Chaviano Chávez. Cienfuegos, Cuba.Policlínico Docente Ernesto Guevara de la Serna. Cienfuegos, Cuba.<p><strong>Foundation:</strong> high blood pressure constitutes the most important medical problem in contemporary medicine, so health promotion plays an important role in its prevention.<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to describe the knowledge level about arterial hypertension in non-hypertensive adults.<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> an educational intervention study was carried out in the family doctor's office No. 7 of the Ernesto Guevara de la Serna polyclinic, Cienfuegos, from February 2021 to November 2023. The universe consisted of 311 non-hypertensive adult patients and the sample by 90 randomly chosen patients who met the inclusion criteria. The analyzed variables were : age, sex, knowledge about the definition of high blood pressure, its risk factors, knowledge about clinical manifestations, complications and knowledge about prevention measures.<br /><strong>Results:</strong> the 50 - 59 year old group and the female sex predominated, 71.11% of the participants demonstrated inadequate knowledge about the definition of arterial hypertension, before the intervention 87.77% of the sample did not know the clinical manifestations, Regarding the level of knowledge about the complications of high blood pressure in 96.66 % of the sample it was inadequate and 72.2% also had inadequate knowledge about prevention measures. All these parameters were overcome after the educational intervention carried out.<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> the greatest percentage of patients had inadequate knowledge on the subject, the educational intervention allowed them to be modified.</p>http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/45216hipertensiónconocimientoautocuidadointervención educativa |
| spellingShingle | Dayme Rodríguez Fumero Taimí Figueredo Pérez Marisela García de la Torre Dianelys Díaz Poma Yaima Montalvo Hernández Zenaida María Rivero Quesada Educational intervention on knowledge level about arterial hypertension in non-hypertensive adults Medisur hipertensión conocimiento autocuidado intervención educativa |
| title | Educational intervention on knowledge level about arterial hypertension in non-hypertensive adults |
| title_full | Educational intervention on knowledge level about arterial hypertension in non-hypertensive adults |
| title_fullStr | Educational intervention on knowledge level about arterial hypertension in non-hypertensive adults |
| title_full_unstemmed | Educational intervention on knowledge level about arterial hypertension in non-hypertensive adults |
| title_short | Educational intervention on knowledge level about arterial hypertension in non-hypertensive adults |
| title_sort | educational intervention on knowledge level about arterial hypertension in non hypertensive adults |
| topic | hipertensión conocimiento autocuidado intervención educativa |
| url | http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/45216 |
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