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Hacia la Promoción de la Salud
Print version ISSN 0121-7577
Abstract
TOBON-MARULANDA, Flor Ángela; NANCLARES, Rubén and LOPEZ-GIRALDO, Luis Alirio. Drug-safety to the use of antihypertensive drugs by older adults in a program for psychophysical health. Hacia promoc. Salud [online]. 2022, vol.27, n.2, pp.88-101. Epub Sep 19, 2022. ISSN 0121-7577. https://doi.org/10.17151/hpsal.2022.27.2.7.
Introduction:
The promotion of psychophysical health and the safety of the responsible use of antihypertensive drugs, is a necessity to improve the quality and life expectancy of the patient.
Objective:
To explore the relationship of risk factors that influence the pharma security for the use of antihypertensive drugs by a group of older adults with cardiovascular disease.
Methodology:
Descriptive cross-sectional exploratory quantitative study. The Dispensing System for Chronic Users instrument was applied during 2015 in validation to 45 older adults with a clinical diagnosis of cardiovascular disease aged between 50 and 88 years old.
Results:
The multifactorial ANOVA with the statistical package IBM SPSS 2016, showed a high statistical relationship F (1) = 27.43; p< 0.001 between risk factors, non-adherence and ineffectiveness of antihypertensive use. The comparative analysis of the mean difference between non-adherence to treatment and the mean of effective and ineffective pharmacotherapy, revealed a very high difference t (1) = 421.59, p< 0.001.
Conclusions:
This study shows the need to encourage the daily practice of health promotion in the elderly, in order to achieve a stable blood pressure and the prevention of any event and/or problem related to the use of anti-hypertensive drugs that may affect the therapeutic effect and on the well-being of the patient.
Keywords : Pharmaco-safety; elderly; risk factor’s; protective factor’s; arterial hypertension.