Monografia (especialização)
Fatores que interferem na adesão do paciente ao tratamento da hipertensão arterial sistêmica: revisão integrativa
Date
2015-12-04Author
Ariane de Souza Ribeiro
Institutions
Abstract
Introduction: Hypertension is defined as high blood pressure levels. The risk factors
associated with hypertension are obesity, sedentarism, dyslipidemia, unhealthy lifestyles and
the occurrence of non treated coronary disease. Purpose: identify facilitating and inhibiting
factors influencing patients' adherence to hypertension treatment. Methods: 36 scientific
articles in the Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS) database were analyzed. Discussion:
Several inhibiting factors influencing patients' adherence were identified, such as inability to
make lifestyle changes, the complexity of therapeutics, smoking, and alcoholism. Among
facilitating factors, non-consumption of alcohol, good communication with the healthcare
team and acceptance of disease were highlighted. Conclusion: patients must be educated by
the healthcare team on how to properly deal with their health condition, thus, nursing
professionals must solve doubts, apply therapeutic measures, educate patients, in addition to
seek effective measures for combating non-adherence causes, aiming to increase better quality
of life in hypertensive patients.