HYPERTENSION IN THE ELDERLY: AN APPROACH TO MEDICATION ADHERENCE
Systemic arterial hypertension is a chronic disease of high prevalence in Brazil, considered a public health problem. The purpose of this study was to analyze medication adherence by the elderly, for this, a quantitative study was carried out with hypertensive patients enrolled in the Hiperdia progr...
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doaj-74a031071bde4012b7ef7c5559dac5ea2020-11-25T02:10:43ZengUniversidade Federal de RondonópolisScientific Electronic Archives2316-92812316-92812018-04-01112138142HYPERTENSION IN THE ELDERLY: AN APPROACH TO MEDICATION ADHERENCEA. N. CunhaR. G. MasochiniS. V. JezusSystemic arterial hypertension is a chronic disease of high prevalence in Brazil, considered a public health problem. The purpose of this study was to analyze medication adherence by the elderly, for this, a quantitative study was carried out with hypertensive patients enrolled in the Hiperdia program and attended in a Basic Health Unit at Sinop, Mato Grosso. Individual interviews were conducted with the elderly in the Family Health Strategy, at prescheduled time and place according to the patient's availability. The interview script was structured with simple, direct and easy-to-understand questions, involving three aspects: socio-demographic variables (gender, age and income), guided questions about the pathology in question (eating habits, physical exercises, drug therapy) and assessment of adherence to antihypertensive treatment. The data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics and the prevalence coefficients were calculated. Fifteen elderly (50%) adherents to the drug treatment were identified, of whom 13 were female and only two were male, thus making evident that women seek more the public health service and adhere better to the treatment. Given this, it is necessary to seek strategies that allow greater adherence to treatment and that encourage the male gender to seek health services for constant monitoring and not only in extreme cases.http://www.seasinop.com.br/revista/index.php?journal=SEA&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=593&path%5B%5D=pdfPublic healthhypertensivetherapeutic |
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A. N. Cunha R. G. Masochini S. V. Jezus |
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HYPERTENSION IN THE ELDERLY: AN APPROACH TO MEDICATION ADHERENCE |
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HYPERTENSION IN THE ELDERLY: AN APPROACH TO MEDICATION ADHERENCE |
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HYPERTENSION IN THE ELDERLY: AN APPROACH TO MEDICATION ADHERENCE |
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HYPERTENSION IN THE ELDERLY: AN APPROACH TO MEDICATION ADHERENCE |
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hypertension in the elderly: an approach to medication adherence |
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Universidade Federal de Rondonópolis |
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Systemic arterial hypertension is a chronic disease of high prevalence in Brazil, considered a public health problem. The purpose of this study was to analyze medication adherence by the elderly, for this, a quantitative study was carried out with hypertensive patients enrolled in the Hiperdia program and attended in a Basic Health Unit at Sinop, Mato Grosso. Individual interviews were conducted with the elderly in the Family Health Strategy, at prescheduled time and place according to the patient's availability. The interview script was structured with simple, direct and easy-to-understand questions, involving three aspects: socio-demographic variables (gender, age and income), guided questions about the pathology in question (eating habits, physical exercises, drug therapy) and assessment of adherence to antihypertensive treatment. The data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics and the prevalence coefficients were calculated. Fifteen elderly (50%) adherents to the drug treatment were identified, of whom 13 were female and only two were male, thus making evident that women seek more the public health service and adhere better to the treatment. Given this, it is necessary to seek strategies that allow greater adherence to treatment and that encourage the male gender to seek health services for constant monitoring and not only in extreme cases. |
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Public health hypertensive therapeutic |
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