Avaliação da efetividade da educação farmacêutica no conhecimento sobre hipertensão em indivíduos participantes de grupos de saúde.

Abstract

Chronic non-transmissible diseases (NCDs) are responsible for a high rate of morbidity and mortality worldwide. One of the main NCDs is systemic arterial hypertension (SAH), which is characterized by being a multifactorial clinical condition that results in increased blood pressure in the arteries. The treatment of hypertension encompasses therapeutic and educational factors, and in this context, the role of the pharmaceutical professional is essential, as it has attributes that contribute to health prevention and promotion, ranging from health education to treatment guidelines. and monitoring of the patient's clinical condition. Considering that knowledge of hypertension and its risk factors facilitate the prevention of new cases, treatment adherence and blood pressure (BP) control, the present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of pharmaceutical education in knowledge about hypertension in participating individuals. of health groups. This was a quasi-experimental study, with a questionnaire applied before and after the health education pharmaceutical interventions, in health groups of the Basic Health Units (UBS) and Family Health Strategies (FHS) of the municipalities of Santa Cruz do Sul and Vera Cruz. The research subjects were 62 active participants of health groups, of both sexes and over 18 years. Data collection included the period from March to June 2019, the data were analyzed descriptively, through means, standard deviation and frequencies and then typed in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 spreadsheets and analyzed using SPSS version 20.0 software. The strategies used in pharmaceutical education were effective in the construction of knowledge about hypertension, since the percentages of correct answers for all alternatives ranged from 6.5% to 85.4% in the pre-intervention questionnaire and 56.4% to 100%. % post-intervention, in addition, when considering the sum of the total number of correct answers in all questions (1178 correct answers), there was an increase from 825 to 1116 correct answers, showing that all participants increased their level of knowledge regarding the disease. It is concluded that the health education activity used in the study is effective. It is recommended that health facilities improve their services, focusing on educational strategies and actions that are consistent with the reality of the participating users. It is expected that this study will bring future benefits to public health by strengthening strategies for the insertion of pharmaceutical education in health groups, as well as providing the development of new intervention strategies, promoting greater community engagement in these activities.