ADHESION TO THE TREATMENT IN THE GROUP OF HIPERTENSOS OF THE QUARTER JOAQUIM ROMÃO - JEQUIÉ/BA

• Main Authors: Claudio Henrique Meira Mascarenhas, Milena Moncorvo Lima Oliveira, Moema Santos Souza
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia 2006-01-01
• Series: Revista Saúde.com
• Subjects: arterial hypertension; adhesion; treatment
• Online Access: http://www.uesb.br/revista/rsc/ojs/index.php/rsc/article/view/39/104

The aim oh this study was to analyze the adhesion/ abandonment to the treatment in the group of hypertensive of the quarter Joaquin Romão, in the city of Jequié-Bahia. One is about a study of descriptive character with cross-sectional delineation, in which thirty and five registered in cadastre hypertensive patients in a health center had participated. For such a half-structuralized interview was used, where the information had been organized and tabulated in a data base in the Microsoft Excel, being carried through descriptive statistical treatment and presented through graphs. From the joined results one perceived that the lack of adhesion of the patients to the treatment of the arterial hypertension still reaches raised levels, and that the program developed for the health center presents deficiencies in its organization and functioning, from the moment where they lack medicines, beyond the difficulty of access of the patient to the health system. On account of this, it urges to awake for the necessity to develop a directed work to increase the degree of knowledge of the population on the importance of the control of the arterial hypertension; to enable the professionals better to guide the hypertensive individuals; to guarantee access of these patients to the basic services of health, with resolution; e to stimulate communitarian politics and programs.