title: [Efficiency of health education programs for adults with high blood pressure].
abstract: It is of great importance to acknowledge health education strategies nurses use on patients with high blood pressure, seeing how they respond and if the method is eficient for for them. The aim was to analise researches which focused on strategies to develop health education for adults with high blood pressure. This is a bibliography study which used data basis from MEDLINE. The abstracts found showed the folowing themes: high blood pressure, education and nursing. After the analisis two articles in english fitted in the established criteria. It was noticed that organized programes improve health conditions in factors such as high blood pressure risks and approval to the treatment given, being noticed a change of behavior and adherence to the drug treatment.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Ceará-UFC, Fortaleza, CE, Bolsista CAPES. emilly.e@zipmail.com.br
authors.forename: Emília Soares
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Chaves
authors.forename: Ingrid Martins Leite
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Lúcio
authors.forename: Thelma Leite
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: de Araújo
authors.forename: Marta Maria Coelho
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Damasceno
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000451:nursing*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic