HYPERTENSION: THE UNDERSTANDING OF BEARER’S USERS

• Main Authors: Vilara Maria Mesquita Mendes Pires1, Maristella Santos Nascimento, Daniela Márcia Neri Sampaio, Doane Martins da Silva, Marta dos Reis Alves
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia 2012-03-01
• Series: Revista Saúde.com
• Subjects: Hypertension; Family Health; Health Education
• Online Access: http://www.uesb.br/revista/rsc/ojs/index.php/rsc/article/view/160/191
• ISSN: 1809-0761; 1809-0761

High Blood Pressure (HBP) occupies a prominent position, due to its high incidence and prevalence, as a multifactorial disease and mostly asymptomatic, that fundamentally endangers the promote life’s quality. The study aimed to portray the understanding of bearer’s users enrolled and monitored by the HIPERDIA program, in Family Health Units, about their pathology and thus be able to establish strategies that may be closer to their reality to propose policies to encourage the promotion of health. The study with qualitative approach, conducted in the municipality of Jequié - Bahia, with 08 Family Health Teams, with 152 users with hypertension. We used the semi-structured interview and the collective subject speech technique, which enabled us to reconstruct 04 speeches: DSC 01: "To me it is a terrible disease", DSC 02 "do not eat salt, do not eat fat”, DSC 03 "it is to have Representação da hipertensão arterial sistêmica headaches, vertigo, it causes heart attack, it causes stroke" DSC 04 "I do not know what it exactly is", they reflect the understanding of the study subjects about their pathology. This leads us to think of health actions aimed at health education emerging the need for change in the approach and use of a common language between professionals and service users, ensuring the promotion of life’s quality and, consequently, the co-responsibility in the treatment adherence.