Estratégia lúdica para melhorar a adesão ao tratamento medicamentoso dos pacientes hipertensos analfabetos da Equipe de Saúde da Família 1 da Unidade Básica de Saúde Alcides Lins

Abstract

This paper reports the experience of playful deployment strategy for understanding the prescription, by functional illiterates hypertensive patients served by the Family Health Team 1 of the Basic Health Unit Alcides Lins, promoting the proper use of medication and treatment adherence . It began with a brief literature review, to allow the contextualization of the issue of adherence to the functional illiterate hypertensive drug therapy. Then documentary analysis was performed on the hypertensive population illiterate and literate of the area of this team. Thus, the strategy was implemented to understand the playful prescription. After a certain period of time it was felt that, among hypertensive patients illiterate, the number of patients classified as moderate and mainly classified as serious fell considerably after the intervention, whereas the opposite was observed among hypertensive patients classified as light, controlled . This experience report showed that after the implementation of play strategies to improve adherence to drug treatment of hypertensive patients, there was a considerable drop in blood pressure in these patients. Moreover, the work confirms the importance of adherence to drug treatment by hypertensive patients to control the disease.