Diseño de estrategia de intervención educativa sobre la actividad física en adultos con hipertensión arterial. Santa Anita, Riobamba, enero a junio 2016.

Abstract

To design and educational strategy intervention about the physical activity in elderly pople with arterial hypertension. A non experimental, descriptive-correlational, transversal and quantitative study was made within the universe of patients with arterial hypertension (53) of the comunity Santa Anita. Canton of Riobamba, from January to June of 2016. Techniques such as the interview and a survey validated by experts. The knowledge was evaluated according to the obtained punctuation, by considering it satisfying whether it responds correctly to the 70% or more of the applied questions. The data was analysed with SPSS and for the relation between the variables the (X2) and Fisher tests were used, with a level of significance of 5% (p>0,005). The age group more represented was from 50 to 54 years, 45.5%; prevailed the female gender 83.0%; obese people 50.9%; housewives 52.8% and of basic primary instruction 66.0%. The 62.3% did not practice physical exercise. The knowledge about the physical activity in elderly people with hypertension prevailed and was no satisfactory in 69.8%. It was found a relation statistically significative between the knowledge about the physical activity and the age (p = 0.048); and between the knowledge with the nutritional state (p = 0.010), not on this way with the rest of biosocial factors studied. In the population of study the knowledge about the physical activity is not satisfactory, which show the importance to design an educational strategy.