PERCEPTION ON ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION AND QUALITY OF LIFE: CONTRIBUTION TO NURSING CARE
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https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v13i4.13112Keywords:
Hipertensão, Qualidade de vida, Enfermagem=pt, Hypertension, Quality of life, Nursing=en, Hipertensión, Cualidade de vida, Enfermería=esAbstract
Descriptive study with a qualitative approach which aimed to describe users’ perception on arterial
hypertension and report the interference of arterial hypertension on those people’s quality of life. It was carried out at a
health unit in Itaiopolis/ Santa Catarina State, Brazil with 15 hypertensive individuals. Prevailed age ranged from 61 to 70
years. Risk factors mentioned were: family history, smoking, stress, obesity, sedentariness, high arterial blood pressure. It
was verified that disease perception is related to signs and symptoms, hard coping and change in dietary habits; aspects
such as health, good family relationship, friendship and proper housing conditions were mentioned as necessary to have
quality of life, and for the subjects, Arterial Hypertension interfered significantly in their quality of life.
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