Authors:
Zélia Maria de Sousa Araújo Santos
1
;
Paula Dayanna Sousa dos Santos
1
;
Maria Helena de Agrela Gonçalves Jardim
2
;
José Manuel Peixoto Caldas
1
;
July Grassiely de Oliveira Branco
1
;
Mirna Albuquerque Frota
1
;
Karla Maria Carneiro Rolim
1
;
Amabili Couto Teixeira de Aguiar
3
;
Rithianne Frota Carneiro
4
;
Ariane Pontes Soares
1
;
Ana Carolina Bezerra Moreira
5
and
Laurineide de Fátima Diniz Cavalcante
1
Affiliations:
1
University of Fortaleza, Brazil
;
2
University of Madeira, Portugal
;
3
Hospital Geral Dr Waldemar de Alcântara, Brazil
;
4
Faculdade do Nordeste, Brazil
;
5
Unidade Básica de Saúde (UBS), Brazil
Keyword(s):
Family Caregiver, Educational Technology in Health, Health Education, Arterial Hypertension.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Health Information Systems
;
Therapeutic Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
The focus of this research is the use of an Educational Technology in Health (ETH) to train the family caregiver in the adherence of hypertensive users to treatment. The participation of the effective family is a factor that can interfere favorably in the other factors, due to its salutary importance in the involvement of the health-disease process of its members. Participant research with the objective of evaluating the changes in the participation of the family caregiver in the adherence of the hypertensive user to the treatment with the application of the Educational Technology in Health, carried out in a Primary Health Care Unit (PHCU) in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, with a group of eleven family caregivers (CF) indicated by the same number of hypertensive users registered in the cited PHCU. The ETH was elaborated based on the assumptions of health education. The ETH consists of 11 (eleven) weekly meetings, with an average duration of sixty minutes. The information was organized thr
ough the Bardin content analysis. After the analysis of the results with the application of ETH, we noticed the occurrence of learning among the FC, but in an unequal way. It is seen that the deficit of previous knowledge about arterial hypertension and the treatment differentiated between them, since each one reported diversified experiences.
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