Conocimientos Sobre Riesgo Cardiovascular en las Mujeres de 30 a 60 Años de la Parroquia Izamba

Abstract

The objective of this project is to determine the knowledge that women between the ages of 30 and 60 in the Izamba parish have about cardiovascular risk. It is known that in Ecuador cardiovascular diseases represent the first cause of death in women even before cancer. These diseases affect all social status, both developed and underdeveloped countries, with women being the gender most affected by their vulnerability, especially during the menopause stage, where protective factors such as estrogens, are declining, thus favoring the development of these pathologies. It is known that the most significant risk factors for the development of these diseases are led by sedentary lifestyle and obesity. We worked with a qualitative approach, based on phenomenological design, which will allow conducting the research in a more flexible way, allowing to find the subjective aspect of the problem to be investigated. For this, in the first instance, a filiation data sheet was filled out, later a semi-structured interview was carried out, with an estimated application time between 20 to 35 minutes to women of the Izamba Parish who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, the Data will be obtained under home visits or a place where there is privacy in a comfortable and quiet place where there are no possible interruptions to proceed with the interview. Subsequently, the interview was transcribed and the data placed in an Excel matrix, which allowed us to organize and correlate the information. Given this, it was confirmed that knowledge is related to cardiovascular risk in women between 30 and 60 years of the Izamba parish.