%0 Journal Article
%T Educaci¨®n para la salud. Influencia en ancianos hipertensos
%A Regla Ledia Gonz¨¢lez S¨¢nchez
%A Santa Martha Interi¨¢n Rodr¨ªguez
%A Jos¨¦ R Rodr¨ªguez Rodr¨ªguez
%A Jes¨²s Men¨¦ndez Jim¨¦nez
%J Revista Cubana de Medicina General Integral
%D 1999
%I ECIMED
%X Se realiz¨® estudio descriptivo longitudinal, sobre la influencia de la Educaci¨®n para Salud en la adquisici¨®n de conocimientos y cambios de actitud y control de la enfermedad en ancianos hipertensos de 2 consultorios del Policl¨ªnico California, en el a o 1977. El universo lo constituyeron 126 ancianos, a los que se les aplic¨® MINI-MENTAL-TEST, resultando aptos para la investigaci¨®n 92 gerontes, a ¨¦stos se le realiz¨® encuesta y result¨® que el mayor porcentaje ten¨ªa conocimientos sobre su enfermedad evaluados de regular, al igual que la actitud ante la misma. Estos aspectos mejoraron despu¨¦s de la t¨¦cnica educativa, increment¨¢ndose tambi¨¦n el n¨²mero de pacientes controlados de su enfermedad. Se formularon recomendaciones. A descriptive and longitudinal study about the influence of health education on the acquisition of knowledge and changes of attitude and control of hypertension was conducted among the elderly from 2 family physician offices of the "California" Polyclinic, in 1997. The MINI-MENTAL-TEST was applied to the 126 aged people who took part in this study. According to the results, 92 of them proved to be apt. After surveying them, it was observed that most of them knew about their disease and were evaluated as fair. They received the same evaluation for their attitude towards the disease. These aspects improved when the aducative technique was used. The number of patients under control increased, too. Recommendations were made.
%K EDUCACION EN SALUD
%K HIPERTENSION
%K SALUD DEL ANCIANO
%K HEALTH EDUCATION
%K HYPERTENSION
%K AGING HEALTH
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