title: Effectiveness of Educational Technology in Promoting Quality of Life and Treatment Adherence in Hypertensive People.
abstract: The objective of this study was to test the effectiveness of an educational intervention with use of educational technology (flipchart) to promote quality of life (QOL) and treatment adherence in people with hypertension. It was an intervention study of before-and-after type conducted with 116 hypertensive people registered in Primary Health Care Units. The educational interventions were conducted using the flipchart educational technology. Quality of life was assessed through the MINICHAL (lowest score = better QOL) and the QATSH (higher score = better adherence) was used to assess the adherence to hypertension treatment. Both were measured before and after applying the intervention. In the analysis, we used the Student's t-test for paired data. The average baseline quality of life was 11.66 ± 7.55, and 7.71 ± 5.72 two months after the intervention, showing a statistically significant reduction (p <0.001) and mean of differences of 3.95. The average baseline adherence to treatment was 98.03 ± 7.08 and 100.71 ± 6.88 two months after the intervention, which is statistically significant (p < 0.001), and mean of differences of 2.68. The conclusion was that the educational intervention using the flipchart improved the total score of quality of life in the scores of physical and mental domains, and increased adherence to hypertension treatment in people with the disease.
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Program Clinical Care in Nursing and Health (PPCCLIS), Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE), Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, Center for Research and Development of Medicines (NPDM), Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Célia Caetano
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: de Souza
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Program Clinical Care in Nursing and Health (PPCCLIS), Postgraduate Program in Public Health (PPSAC), Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
authors.forename: Thereza Maria Magalhaes
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Moreira
authors.affiliation: Hospital Carlos Alberto Studart Gomes, Fortaleza, Brazil.
authors.forename: Edmar Souza de
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE), Fortaleza, Brazil.
authors.forename: Anaíze Viana Bezerra de
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Menezes
authors.affiliation: Liver Transplant Unit, Hospital Geral de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil.
authors.forename: Aline Maria Oliveira
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Loureiro
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Program in Public Health (PPSAC), Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
authors.forename: Camila Brasileiro de Araújo
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Program in Public Health (PPSAC), Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
authors.forename: Jair Gomes
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Linard
authors.affiliation: Scholarship of scientific initiation, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
authors.forename: Italo Lennon Sales de
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.affiliation: Scholarship of scientific initiation, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
authors.forename: Samuel Miranda
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Mattos
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Program Clinical Care in Nursing and Health (PPCCLIS), Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil, Postgraduate Program in Health and Community (PPGSC), Universidade Federal do Piauí, Teresina, Brazil.
authors.forename: José Wicto Pereira
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Borges
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D003710:Demography; D003971:Diastole; D018961:Educational Technology; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D055118:Medication Adherence; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life; D013599:Systole; D055105:Waist Circumference