A não adesão de pacientes hipertensos ao tratamento em Unidade Básica de Saúde (UBS)

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Introduction - Arterial hypertension also knowledge as high blood pressure, it's one of the most common diseases in our planet. According to World Health Organization (WHO) - as known as OMS in Brazil - from each five Brazilian citizen, one has disturb. It's also known that the disease is more common in people with 50 years old or higher, however, statistics confirm there is not an specific age to the beginning, but some factors would be considered to the establishment of the disturb. This research has its main focus to the acceptance from the carrier person of arterial hypertension to the treatment and follow-up on the Basic Health Unit (UBS - in Brazil). The objective of this study was to identify the reason which hypertense patients give up from the treatment offered by Basic Health Unit Material and Method - This is a transversal non-experimental quantitative research. Data was extracted from medical records on Health Center's archive from hypertense patients who gave up the treatment in one year or more. Results - The instrument of research was applied to 223 selected patients, from which 114 questionnaires were replied from 75 women (65.79%) and 39 men (34.21%). In our research was identified that the most of the cases of arterial hypertension was detected during doctor appointments. Patients have pointed the familiar and the colleague's relationship as the reason for changing the blood pressure values. In fact, the patients - users from Health Center (public) - have changed the treatment to Health Plan (private), where they can also use the default medicaments available by the group of the Health Plan. An expressive number (78.98%) regularly takes the medicine. Conclusion - This research generated a great satisfaction to us because we believe that our population is more clarified and ready to face this kind of pathology which afraid a huge number of Brazilian citizens.