Intervención integral para disminuir la hipercolesterolemia en adultos medios con riesgo cardiovascular, pertenecientes al barrio “Las Playas”, Tena.

Abstract

The objective of this research was to reduce the incidence of hypercholesterolemia in middle adults with risk factors belonging to the Las Playas neighborhood. This research was applied, with a quasi-experimental design, the study population is made up of 53 middle adults with moderate and high cardiovascular risk, in the period January June 2019. A comprehensive health intervention with assistance and educational component was applied. Several statistical tests were applied to respond to the needs of the intervention, these were the linear trend test, the chi-square test Goodness of fit, Fisher's exact test, Spearman's correlation coefficient, the Ranges with Wilcoxon signs test and the McNemar test. The average adults between 50 and 54 years of age (32.1%) predominated, corresponding to the female sex (56.6%) and with moderate cardiovascular risk (66.0%). 71.7% of the patients presented associated comorbidities, within these the arterial hypertension (55.3%) the diabetes mellitus (42.1%) were those of greater representation. 54.7% of the cases reported presence of harmful habits. The low level of knowledge prevailed on prevention of hypercholesterolemia (58.5%) and an increase in the percentage of patients with hypercholesterolemia (67.9%). As a fundamental conclusion, it was obtained that applied intervention significantly changed the level of knowledge about prevention of hypercholesterolemia and in the presence of the disease. It was recommended to extend the time and apply in this intervention to a larger population group in order to have an overview of the impact it produces.