Factores asociados al autocuidado de los pacientes adultos con hipertensión arterial que acuden al Centro de salud de Guapán, 2022

Abstract

Background: arterial hypertension is a public health problem, it affects 30% of the world's adult population, it is considered a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular event, kidney failure and premature death due to the complications it produces. Knowledge of the factors associated with self-care of the disease allows Nursing professionals to intervene on them to promote self-care and develop comprehensive care for a better quality of life for hypertensive patients. Objective: To identify the factors associated with the self-care of adult patients with Arterial Hypertension who attend the Guapán Parish Health Center. Methodology: Quantitative research, cross-sectional analytical study, the study population consisted of 160 adult patients with arterial hypertension treated at the Health Center of the Guapán parish, the ASA scale, the INEC socioeconomic file was used; For the information processing, the SPSS program was used. Result: 100% of the studied population have a medium self-care capacity, showing greater significance of self-care with factors such as: female sex 70.6%, marital status married 66.9%, incomplete primary education level 43.1% and average socioeconomic level 34.4%. Conclusion: The characteristics of the population are similar, homogeneous in sociodemographic variables such as: sex, age, socioeconomic status, level of education and adherence to treatment, which has determined similar results between self-care capacity and associated factors, in the Management of the disease in the Guapán parish of the Azogues Canton