Effect of a multidisciplinary educational intervention in quality of life of hypertensive patients
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Objective: Compare the effect of a multidisciplinary educational
intervention versus the conventional management in the hypertensive patients’ quality of life, body mass index and blood pressure. Design: Experimental of educative intervention. Methods: from March to October, 2005, it was made a multidisciplinary educational intervention in a primary care unit. The participating group included family doctors, nutritionists, social workers and a specialist in mental health. The experimental group received the intervention that consisted of five sessions during three months; it was evaluated quality of life, body mass index and blood pressure. Student’s t-test was used to determine the differences between groups, the p<0.05 was significant. Results: 25 patients were randomly assigned to the experimental group and 25 to the control group. In the experimental group evaluation presented a better global result of 10 points in their quality of life (p=0.001), the blood pressure decreased in 10 mmHg of the average (p=0.001), the body mass index decreased only in the experimental group in 1 kg/mt2 (p=0.001). Conclusion: the multidisciplinary participation had a better impact in the quality of life and in the blood pressure control.
intervention versus the conventional management in the hypertensive patients’ quality of life, body mass index and blood pressure. Design: Experimental of educative intervention. Methods: from March to October, 2005, it was made a multidisciplinary educational intervention in a primary care unit. The participating group included family doctors, nutritionists, social workers and a specialist in mental health. The experimental group received the intervention that consisted of five sessions during three months; it was evaluated quality of life, body mass index and blood pressure. Student’s t-test was used to determine the differences between groups, the p<0.05 was significant. Results: 25 patients were randomly assigned to the experimental group and 25 to the control group. In the experimental group evaluation presented a better global result of 10 points in their quality of life (p=0.001), the blood pressure decreased in 10 mmHg of the average (p=0.001), the body mass index decreased only in the experimental group in 1 kg/mt2 (p=0.001). Conclusion: the multidisciplinary participation had a better impact in the quality of life and in the blood pressure control.
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Guzmán Pantoja, J. E., Valadez Toscano, F. J., Cabrera Pivaral, C. E., Campollo Rivas, O., Gutiérrez Román, E. A., Barrera Parraga, J., & Sandoval Magaña, M. A. (2010). Effect of a multidisciplinary educational intervention in quality of life of hypertensive patients. Atención Familiar, 16(1), 18–21. https://doi.org/10.22201/facmed.14058871p.2009.1.16332