Indicadores de qualidade de vida em pacientes com hipertensão arterial sistêmica

Abstract

The Systemic Arterial Hypertension (SAH) is considered a serious public health problem in Brazil. SAH is presented as one of the predisposing factors for several other chronic non communicable diseases and its impact changes the Quality of Life of the patient. Thus, the present is the exploratory and descriptive study and the aim was to evaluate the Quality of Life of patients with SAH, in order to know and point out the indicators of Quality of Life in patients admitted to the medical clinic of the University Hospital of the Federal University of Grande Dourados (HU / UFGD). The sample was composed of five patients who were admitted to the medical clinic. A protocol for sample characterization and WHOQOL-Bref was used for assessing the Quality of Life. A descriptive analysis of each patient in relation to indicators of Quality of Life and of their respective domains, according to the average raw scores of each domain of the WHOQOL-Bref was performed. According to the results, it was found that most of the areas were rated as fair for most patients. Finally, it is emphasized that these findings represent a breakthrough for understanding the consequences of hypertension on Quality of Life and point to the need to investigate other factors that may influence the Quality of Life of hypertensive patients