[Knowledge level of hypertensive patients about hypertension. Relationship between knowledge level and hypertension control].

Autor: Benítez Camps M; CAP Gòtic, ICS, Barcelona, España. Electronic address: alexpben2010@comb.cat., Egocheaga Cabello MI; CS Isla de Oza, Madrid, España., Dalfó Baqué A; CAP Gòtic, ICS, Barcelona, España., Bajo García J; CS de Kueto, Sestao, Bizkaia, España., Vara González L; CS Castilla-Hermida, Santander, España., Sanchis Doménech C; CS Algemesí, Alzira, Valencia, España., Martín Rioboo E; Unidad de Gestión Clínica (UGC) Fuensanta, Distrito Sanitario Córdoba y Guadalquivir, Córdoba, España., Ureña Fernández T; CS El Valle, Jaén, España., Domínguez Sardiña M; SAP Sárdoma, Vigo, Pontevedra, España., Bonet Pla A; CS Salvador Pau, Valencia, España.
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Zdroj: Hipertension y riesgo vascular [Hipertens Riesgo Vasc] 2015 Jan-Mar; Vol. 32 (1), pp. 12-20. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Sep 20.
DOI: 10.1016/j.hipert.2014.06.003
Abstrakt: Objective: To assess the knowledge of the hypertensive patients about their hypertension and their relation to its control.
Material and Methods: Cross-sectional study among 400 hypertensive patients, all over 18 years, selected from 50 primary-care centres, who responded to an hypertension-related survey. Included variables were survey items, age, gender, educational level, professional occupation, blood pressure data and antihypertensive treatment. The obtained differences were analyzed using the chi-square test, Kruskal-Wallis, Wilcoxon, Anova and Bonferroni methods.
Results: There were 323 valid surveys. 52.9% of respondents were women, the average age: 65.4 years (SD: 11.2), 54.8% of them had primary education. 39.6% were aware of the objectives of systolic BP control. Only 19.6% having knowledge of those for diastolic BP control, with no differences between controlled and uncontrolled (systolic BP: 39% vs 38.1%, P=.887; diastolic BP: 19.2% vs 21%, P=.721). Over 70% knew about lifestyle changes, without significant differences between controlled and uncontrolled respondents. 82% of controlled respondents, and 79% of those uncontrolled, recognized the chronical nature of the treatment (P=.548), but 15.1% of the controlled respondents and 12.4% of uncontrolled respondents did not see the relation between the treatment and hypertension control (P=.525). 31.1% believed to be well-controlled, but in fact was not.
Conclusions: Our patients doesn't know blood pressure targets of control. There isn't relationship between this knowledge and control of hypertension.
(Copyright © 2014 SEHLELHA. Published by Elsevier Espana. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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