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EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION ON RISK FACTORS FOR HYPERTENSION BLOOD IN A NEIGHBORHOOD OF HOUSEHOLDS CITY MANIZALES

Intervencio Educativa sobre Factores De Riesgo Para Hipertension Arterial En Grupos Famiiares De Un Barrio De La Ciudad De Manizales




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Galindo Lopez, M. P., Mejia Arias, J. A., Ossa Zuluaga, J. C., Restrepo Urrego, L. F., Aristizabal, J. F., & Castaño Castrillón, J. J. (2007). EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION ON RISK FACTORS FOR HYPERTENSION BLOOD IN A NEIGHBORHOOD OF HOUSEHOLDS CITY MANIZALES. Archivos De Medicina (Manizales), 13, 30-50. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.13.0.1388.2006
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Galindo Lopez, M. P., Mejia Arias, J. A., Ossa Zuluaga, J. C., Restrepo Urrego, L. F., Aristizabal, J. F., & Castaño Castrillón, J. J. (2007). EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION ON RISK FACTORS FOR HYPERTENSION BLOOD IN A NEIGHBORHOOD OF HOUSEHOLDS CITY MANIZALES. Archivos De Medicina (Manizales), 13, 30-50. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.13.0.1388.2006

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Maria Paula Galindo Lopez
Jhoana Andrea Mejia Arias
Juan Carlos Ossa Zuluaga
Luis Felipe Restrepo Urrego
Jose Fernando Aristizabal
Jose Jaime Castaño Castrillón

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Objective: To develop to an educative proposal in factors of risk for arterial hypertension
in familiar groups of the district the Sultana of the city of Manizales. Materials and
methods: Cuasiexperimental study. An educative intervention was carried out active
participatory that began with the accomplishment of an acceptance test to delimit the
population interested in the District «the Sultana» of Manizales. Chosen the population
the project lasted 3 months (February to May of the 2005), period in which 5 visits with
a regularity of 1 were made every two weeks by family, beginning these with the
accomplishment of a test of knowledge and habits to know the level of training of the
population, in the following visits by means of pamphlets and practical guides object
took to the population to include/understand of a easy way the complex of the arterial
hypertension and how they themselves, with very simple actions will be able to reduce
the risks. When finalizing the experience was again made the same applied test in the
first visit to evaluate the impact. Results: Increase in the knowledge in the participant
population in the project due to the great difference in the results in each one of the
made tests was observed: In pre - the average of note proves was of 2.5104, whereas
the average of post - test was of 3.4627 (P = 0.000), demonstrating the receptivity of
the population. Conclusions: The participatory educative strategy is useful in the
diminution of the factors of risk for HTA, since the population investigation object
demonstrated the learned salary and therefore to be able to apply such knowledge in
the promotion of habits of healthful life

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