Esteem of self-care capacities for arterial hypertension in countryside

Abstract

Introduction: Self-care capacities are conceptually determined by Orem, in the self-care deficit theory. The development of specialized abilities let people to care about their health. They have a deep cultural meaning and it could be acquire by an intentional way in health or illness statements on people.

Objective: To estimate the self-care capacities for arterial hypertension on people from 20 to 69 years old in a rural community.

Methodology and methods: During a home visit in a rural community at Morelos state in  Mexico, a selection to get a total of 120 persons was made with its improvement and previous procedure standardization for clinical measurement done in base with NOM-030-SSA2-1999, measurement and registry of blood pressure were done either. For self-care capacities valuation, the spanish version of the self-care capacities scale was applied.

Results: The community presents an average age of 42 years old, predominating feminine genre, numbers of arterial pressure were identified above from the established standards on 16.6% of the studied population, in which was identified a better selfcare capacity than people who presented numbers in the normal standard ranks.

Conclusion: Applying the self-care capacities scale it was possible to identify people with hypertension who perceived on a better way their self-care capacities than with the people who does have it.