Diseño de estrategia de intervención educativa sobre prevención de enfermedad cerebro vascular en adultos mayores con hipertensión arterial. Comunidad Majipamba, Colta enero-junio 2016.

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to Design an Educational Intervention Strategy for preventing brain-vascular illness in the elderly suffering from high blood pressure. For this, a descriptive, correlational and transversal study was carried out in the universe of 40 elderly suffering from high blood pressure in Majipamba community, Colta canton, Chimborazo province from January to June 2016. For collecting the information it was necessary to apply a based interview to the population to be studied, the questionnaire was validated by a group of experts. The data were analyzed with the Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 17 with the Fisher tests to determine the relationship between the variables with a significance level of 5% (p<0,05). Some variables such as age, sex, level of education, marital status and knowledge were analyzed with satisfactory and unsatisfactory depending on the positive responses. The results showed that 35% (14) of patients aged from 65 to 69, 75% (30) stable non-marital partners and 87.5% (35) has non satisfactory knowledge about brain-vascular illness, there was a connection between the knowledge about this disease and the level of education (p = 0,01) as well as the dimensions such as concept, risk factors and prevention forms with sociodemographic variables like age and schooling (p = 0,01). It is concluded that the knowledge about high blood pressure on prevention of brain-vascular illness is not satisfactory, strategy in order to prevent brain-vascular illnes in elderly of this community. it is recommended to apply the Educational Itervention Strategy designed to prevent brain-vascular illness in elderly from Majipamba community.