Abstract

RUIZ COBIELLA, Dania María; GARCIA MARTINEZ MOLES, Aymara; ANTUNEZ TABOADA, Jesús  and  RODRIGUEZ CORREA, Leise. Educational intervention on knowledge of risk factors and their influence in patients with hypertensive urgency episode. AMC [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.1, pp.1-12. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: arterial hypertension is an extraordinary sanitary problem, it remains asymptomatic until late stages of its evolution (silent murderer), and there are nearly a trillion of hypertensive people worldwide, with a mortality of 15 millions per year. Objective: to evaluate knowledge on risk factors and their influence in patients with hypertensive urgency episode. Method: an educational intervention in patients that presented hypertensive urgency episode was conducted, who were attended in the Emergency-room at the North University Polyclinic of Florida from January to June 2007. The universe was constituted by all patients older than 45 years with this diagnosis, the sample was conformed to 48 patients, for data collecting a survey was designed, the said survey was applied before and after the educational intervention. Results: the most affected age group corresponded to 65-74 years, the female sex prevailed, and the main risk factors were: smoking, obesity and hypercholesterolemia. After the educational intervention was possible to increase knowledge on risk factors in the population, aspects related with hypercholesterolemia, physical inactivity, obesity and smoking. Conclusions: the frequency of hypertensive urgency increased with the age, with prevalence in the female sex. The educational intervention proved to be feasible and effective for the knowledge on hypertension risk factors, comprehension levels were increased and a better quality of life was achieved in the studied patients.

Keywords : HYPERTENSION; RISK FACTORS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; AGED; FEMALE; EMERGENCIES.

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