[Self-care ability in the hypertensive patient control]

Autor: Rafael, Leyva-Jiménez, Omar Efraín, Venegas-Escobedo, Alfredo Guadalupe, Medel-Delgado
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Revista de investigacion clinica; organo del Hospital de Enfermedades de la Nutricion. 63(4)
ISSN: 0034-8376
Popis: Trough an analytical cross-sectional study the association of self-care ability and the blood pressure control was evaluated. We studied controlled and uncontrolled hypertensive patients, both groups with 79 subjects. Self-care basic conditioning factors and capacities scale in patients with hypertension was used.Self-care ability was good in 73.4% of controlled and in 3.8% of the uncontrolled patients (p0.05). The 91.2% of controlled and 67.9% of uncontrolled presented a positive family system (p0.05). Socio-cultural factors were good in 64.6% of controlled against 16.7% of the uncontrolled (p0.05). Environmental factors were good in 50.6% of controlled and 2.6% of the uncontrolled (p0.05).According to these results we conclude that there is association between self-care ability and control of hypertension.
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