title: [Educational technologies designed to promote cardiovascular health in adults: integrative review].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Investigating the educational technologies developed for promoting cardiovascular health in adults.
  
  
  METHODS
  Integrative review carried out in the databases of PubMed, SciELO and LILACS, with 15 articles selected.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Over half (60%) of the studies were randomized clinical trials. The developed educational technologies were programs involving three strategies, with duration of one year, use of playful technologies with storytelling, computer programs or software for smartphones, and electronic brochure. These technologies resulted in reduction of blood pressure, weight, waist circumference, decreased hospitalizations and increased years of life.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The studies with better impact on the cardiovascular health of adults were those who brought the technology in the form of program and duration of one year.
authors.affiliation: Post-Graduate Program in Clinical Care in Nursing and Health, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Célia Caetano de
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Thereza Maria Magalhães
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Moreira
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Piauí, Teresina, PI, Brazil.
authors.forename: José Wicto Pereira
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Borges
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018961:Educational Technology; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans