Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk factors and the Selfcare Capacity Agency Presented by Some Employees at a University of Manizales city (Colombia), 2014
Factores de Riesgo Cardiovascular Modificable y Agencia de Autocuidado en Funcionarios de una Institución Universitaria
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Hoyos Loaiza, C., Jiménez Montoya, M. A., & Rodríguez Marín, J. E. (2015). Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk factors and the Selfcare Capacity Agency Presented by Some Employees at a University of Manizales city (Colombia), 2014. Archivos De Medicina , 15(2), 266-280. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.15.2.814.2015
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Hoyos Loaiza, C., Jiménez Montoya, M. A., & Rodríguez Marín, J. E. (2015). Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk factors and the Selfcare Capacity Agency Presented by Some Employees at a University of Manizales city (Colombia), 2014. Archivos De Medicina , 15(2), 266-280. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.15.2.814.2015
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cardiovascular risk factors were identified through a medical evaluation, an anthropometric measurement taking, and a lipid profile data. For the measurement of the capacity of self-care agency, a Colombian Self-care Capacity Value Scale was used.
Results: sedentariness (92%), abdominal obesity (90%), and dyslipidemias (57%) were the prevailing risk factors found in the present study. Regarding the self-care agency it was revealed that most of the individuals have a high sense of self-care. At
the multivariate analysis, an important faculty of high self care agency is observed in conjunction with the cardiovascular risk factors variables as sedentariness, abdominal obesity and type I obesity. Conclusion: although employees have uncontrolled factors cardiovascular risk, perceived to have a high capacity for self-care and ignorance of the presence and the way they could control their risk factors; This phenomenon invited to
contribute from the process nursing care interventions that ensure self-management of health in the company of other disciplines, in order to achieve a real change in lifestyle.
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