Grupos operativos: uma estratégia para acompanhamento das pessoas com hipertensão arterial

Abstract

Arterial hypertension is a major health problem in Brazil; by itself constitutes an important risk factor for the occurrence of cardiovascular, brain and kidney morbid events. To achieve therapeutic success becomes essential to develop therapeutic and educational activities with emphasis on lifestyle changes, correction of cardiovascular risk factors and encouraging continual use of medicines. In this context the operative groups have been used as an efficient strategy for the practice of health promotion and to increase patients' adherence to the proposed treatment. The Operative Group, conceptualized and systematized by Pichon-Rivière, can be defined as a set of people with the common goal of performing a given task, e.g. learning, healing, diagnosis of problems etc. This paper aims it is describe the importance of the work with groups, realized by family health teams, monitoring people with arterial, being in a descriptive bibliographic research, based on electronic journal articles analysis published on the period of 2000 to 2010. Was used as the main bibliographical sources, the following databases: Virtual Health Library, Scielo and Google Scholar. The terms used were: arterial hypertension and family health to base the review and both operative groups and arterial hypertension to describe the results. From the articles analysis was identified as a result of the groups practice: greater blood pressure control, changes in interpersonal relationships, improved self-esteem, building links between patients and health team, changes in the design of health - disease and adoption of healthy life habits.