Conocimiento sobre tratamiento y complicaciones con Influencia en la meta de control de la presión arterial en personas adultas hipertensas del subcentro de salud la Vicentina 2016.

Abstract

Arterial Hypertension (AHT) is a multicausal disease that requires multiple interventions to control it. An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the influence of knowledge on treatment and complications of hypertension in the control of hypertensive adults who attended the outpatient Health Center Vicentina during 2015, from different sociodemographic such as sex, age, educational level and socioeconomic status.

There was a predominance of females with 70%, those over 65 years of age with 56.20% and primary schooling 56,20% and low socioeconomic status 51,20%. The 73.80% of the population had knowledge about treatment and complications of hypertension and 61,25 % did meet the goal of control.

It is concluded that existed in the patients studied showed significant frequencies influence of knowledge about treatment and complications of hypertension in meeting the goal of control.

It is recommended that additional research in the future be conducted with emphasis on risk factors and other relations with hypertensive patients such as the body mass index and stages of the disease to analyze meeting the goal of control of the disease.

The application of the proposed guide of prevention of hypertension to be presented in health centers of primary care.