Impact of an educational program for the control of the hypertensive patient
Keywords:
High blood pressure, Education impactAbstract
Introduction: the high blood pressure is an important pathology, because of its high frequency and its capacity to shorten life expectancy in the patient who suffer it. During 1980 in Mexico the high blood pressure is identified as the second cause of death. In 1989 Nuevo León it occupied the third place in family medicine health care demand.
Objective: to evaluate the impact of an educational program for controlling the high blood pressure patient.
Methodology: an educational intervention was realized by nursing. Thirty eight patients were randomly selected, whit the age ranging from 25 to 55 years, those presenting auditory and visuals limitations were excluded. Educational intervention lasted five days, three hours a day with preand post-test measurements, as well as monitory of high blood pressure each month. Descriptive statistic was used and Student paired t-test, with significant level of .05.
Results: population studied was 49 years (DE=8.3), 73% were women and 87% were married. The increased in knowledge difference was 42.6 (DE=22, p=0.000), the difference in diastolic high blood pressure was 15.2 mmHg (DE=8.9, p=0.000).
Conclusions: the present work revels a very substantial improvement in the increment in the level if knowledge about the illness, rebounding in the levels of high blood pressure, given as result the control of this type patients.
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