Plano de ação para aumentar a adesão ao tratamento de hipertensão arterial sistêmica com estímulo à orientação familiar

Abstract

The Santa Rita Family Health Strategy, located in Cássia, Minas Gerais, covers approximately 3.500 people. Despite not having its own building, the team headquarters has a structure able to answer all people satisfactorily. Among the population, the clients with high blood pressure (Hypertension) correspond to 22,8% of the adult population and it has been possible to identify that most patients did not adhere to the treatment following the medical prescriptions resulting in the arising of complications. It was noticed that the not adhesion was related to lack of knowledge regarding the harm, as well as the difficulty to understand the proposal for the illness control. Because of the importance of the disease and the consequences when it is not well treated - such as high morbidity and mortality, an intervention project was proposed in order to prompt knowledge about the disease and its traits through lectures which took place at the unit, at public schools and meetings of Hiperdia groups aiming a best control of hypertension.