Projeto de intervenção no estilo de vida de pacientes diabéticos

Abstract

The literature shows that chronic noncommunicable diseases have a high incidence and prevalence in the entire world population, especially Diabetes Mellitus and Systemic Arterial Hypertension, being the main underlying diseases for various complications, cardiovascular morbidities and hospitalization reasons throughout the country. Araporã could not escape this reality with a high number of diabetic patients. Faced with this fact, the health team decided to elaborate an intervention project whose objective was to elaborate an intervention project that allows the increase of adherence to treatment and changes in the lifestyle of diabetic patients and consequently the decrease of the high disease rate in the territory of under the responsibility of the Lindalva Ferreira de Castro family health team Araporã in Minas Gerais. The health team carried out the situational diagnosis of the coverage area with the purpose of obtaining information about the population, as well as raising all the problems that the population experiences. For this, the fast estimation method was used. Among other problems identified, the priority was poor adherence to the treatment of chronic diseases, especially in relation to lifestyle changes in patients with diabetes mellitus. To contextualize the problem, a bibliographic search was necessary. With the accomplishment of these projects, it is expected to contribute to the awareness of the importance of lifestyle changes, especially in relation to healthy eating and physical exercise, and thus directly interfere with the health of the patient with diabetes mellitus, even contributing to glycemic control.