Adherencia al tratamiento farmacológico en pacientes hipertensos del sector San Cayetano, perteneciente al centro de salud San Cayetano, Loja-Ecuador

Abstract

Abstract: Hypertension is a disease with a socioeconomic and health impact due to the global burden of morbidity and mortality. In San Cayetano, its population has poor control of its disease due to lack of therapeutic adherence, a cause identified as a priority public health problem, to prevent therapeutic failure, complications and unfavorable sequelae. In this context, the need arose to characterize the population from the sociodemographic point of view, determine its adherence, develop an intervention aimed at drug adherence and evaluate its effectiveness, in order to contribute to the control of hypertension and generate a change in the population. A quasi-experimental study was carried out and the Morisky Green test was applied pre and post intervention to the 45 participants. A predominantly mixed-race population, female sex, between 45 and 64 years of age, with the presence of comorbidities, an adherence of 0% preintervention and 57.77% post-intervention was studied. It was concluded that the applied strategy was effective and achieved a positive change in improving their adherence in the short term.