Estudio aleatorizado para evaluar el programa educativo de autocuidado para mejorar la adherencia al tratamiento en pacientes con hipertensión arterial. Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso 2012

Abstract

Objective: apply self-care education program to improve adherence to treatment in hypertension patients attending outpatient in the “Vicente Corral Moscoso” Hospital in 2012.- Methodology: this was a quasi-experimental study. The total study population was 110 patients, the population was divided into 2 groups of study, experimental group (EG) and control group (CG), both groups were administered the survey: Self-care Appreciation ASA and a test of adherence to treatment and a form to collect demographic data of the population, both groups were selected randomly, then EG was applied to an educational intervention on hypertension and the control group a different topic, then applied again forms mentioned.- Results: The mean age for the experimental group was 54.33 and for the control group 54.89. These differences were not statistically significant (p> 0.05). Females were more prevalent in the experimental group, represented 52.9%. In the group of patients with treatment adherence was found 35.7% in the experimental group and 64.3% in the control group. Seeing the scale of assessment of self-care agency we found that 100% of the population is placed between 2 options: Low self-care agency and very low self-care agency, the first was more prevalent in the experimental group and the second in the control group with 66.7% and 59.2% respectively. 100% of participants in the study had combination therapies for treatment of hypertension.- Conclusions: The educational program increases the probability of better adherence in 1.75 times compared with the control group, also increases perception of self-care in hypertensive patients.AU