Impacto de la aplicación de estrategia de intervención educativa para mejorar la adherencia al tratamiento farmacológico en pacientes con hipertensión arterial. Colta, Septiembre 2018 – Julio 2019.

Abstract

The objective of this research was to assess the impact of the application of educational intervention strategy to improve the situation in patients with high blood pressure of the San Guisel and San Bernardo communities, Colta from September 2018 to July 2019. The research developed was applied, with a longitudinal section and a quasi-experimental design; different theoretical and statistical methods were used during the course of the investigation; the theoretical level methods were the logical historical, the synthetic analytical and the deductive inductive; the methods of the statistical level were the Ranges with Wilconxon Signs test and the McNemar test with a significance level of p <0.05. The universe consisted of 35 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of high blood pressure who reside permanently in the San Guisel and San Bernardo communities. The information was obtained through two questionnaires the Morisky-Green test and the so-called adherence to drug treatment in patients with high blood pressure designed and validated by Zúñiga (2016). As a result of this research at the beginning it was found that 54.3% (n=19) of the patients had low knowledge about pharmacological adherence and that after the educational intervention a high level of knowledge was obtained in 51.4 % (n=18); A statistically significant result was obtained with a value of Z=-4.413 and a p=0.001; These results allow us to state that the median was higher for the measurement taken after the intervention. It is concluded that the intervention applied did improve the level of pharmacological adherence; It is recommended to develop inclusive intervention strategies in patients with chronic diseases to raise public awareness about the importance of pharmacological adherence in the control of these conditions.