Asociación del conocimiento sobre hipertensión arterial (HTA) y adherencia al tratamiento en pacientes del club de hipertensos del Centro de Salud No 1 del Distrito Chambo-Riobamba 06D01

Abstract

Hypertension is a chronic disease characterized by blood pressure figures above 140/90 mmHg. This pathology is considered as a disease or as a risk factor in the development of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which can lead to death, therefore it is necessary that people who suffer from it have sufficient knowledge about it, since this would improve its therapeutic adherence, for this reason in the present study the degree of relationship between these conditions (knowledge and therapeutic adherence) was determined through a cross-sectional, relational study applied to patients of the hypertensive club of Health Center No 1 of the Chambo-Riobamba District, who have previously received education about their illness from the responsible health personnel. The sample size with which we worked was 85 patients who gave their informed consent and met the inclusion criteria. Talks were given by the researchers in support of the health personnel in charge of the Hypertensive Club, which covered general aspects of the disease and therapeutic adherence, and afterwards the validated questionnaires were applied: CHS (Knowledge about hypertension) and MBG (Martin-Bayarre-Grau). In this research it was obtained that the level of knowledge on HTA that had hypertensive patients mostly was average, followed by a good level and with respect to adherence to treatment most of the patients presented a Total adherence followed by partial adhesion. Adherence to the treatment of hypertensive patients was not associated with their knowledge of hypertension (P = 0,93), which were generally good.