Factores psicosociales asociados a la no adherencia al tratamiento en adultos mayores hipertensos de dos consultorios del Centro de Salud Pascuales. Año 2021.

Abstract

Background: Hypertension is considered a disease of multifactorial origin, non-adherence to antihypertensive treatment is related to multiple psychosocial factors, the most important being the lack of knowledge of the disease, scarce social support, dependence, family functionality and depression. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive relational level study was carried out, including 83 older adults of both sexes with a diagnosis of Arterial Hypertension assigned to the office 25-26 of the Pascuales Health Center. The Morisky-Green-Levinne test was used and the Yessavage depression scale, the MOS-SSS psychosocial support questionnaire, and the family Apgar, modified Katz index, Battle test were used to determine the psychosocial factors. To determine the statistical association between the supervisory variable and the associated variables, the Chi-square test was used to test the hypothesis. Results: a prevalence of the age group between 65 to 69 years, female, married, low educational level, depression, family dysfunction was evidenced. Most patients have social support. Lack of adherence to the presnet treatment in half of the participants. Conclusions: Adherence to treatment was related to the social support received.