Estilos de vida de las personas con insuficiencia cardiaca congestiva que acuden a consulta externa del Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, Cuenca 2016

Abstract

Background: By modify their lifestyles such as diet, physical activity, adherence to medical treatment, people with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) could have a regression of complications associated with this disease (1); Patients usually do not have good lifestyles for example a study in Spain (2) showed that 30% have not considered changing or improving their lifestyles. Objective: To determine the lifestyles of people with Congestive Heart Failure attending the outpatient department of Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital, Cuenca January-June 2016. Methodology: Descriptive study, information was collected from all patients with Congestive Heart Failure attending the outpatient department of Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital, a form was used to gather information which included; demographic, nutritional, physical activity, adherence to treatment and cigarette consumption. Data was analyzed on version 15 of SPSS program. Results: 47.1% of patients had more than 60 years of age, male being 55.9% of the cases; in eating habits, fat intake is high and fruit and vegetables did not exceed 40%; the frequency of physical inactivity was 26.5% and adverse effects and ignorance fomented the lack of adherence to the treatment, smoking was 23.5%. Conclusions: Patients with Congestive Heart Failure have variable life habits, there is population with inadequate food intake, physical inactivity, cigarette consumption and non-adherence to treatment which determines its evolution and can lead to complications