Strategies for health promotion and their impact on the quality of life of hypertensive adults: integrative review

Abstract

Background

Health promotion is a practice that qualifies care and positively impacts the quality of life, especially in individuals with hypertension who need lifelong monitoring.

Objective

This study aimed to investigate the strategies developed for health promotion and their impacts on the quality of life of hypertensive adults.

Method

An integrative review was carried out by consulting Lilacs, Medline, SciELO, Scopus and Web of Science databases. Original articles on health promotion practices conducted with hypertensive adults, published in the last five years, in Portuguese, English or Spanish, and available in full, were included. Researches with hypertensive pregnant women, adolescents and children were excluded.

Results

Twelve articles were included in the review. The main strategies consisted of group community interventions, which considered the user as protagonist of care. Activities developed proved to be effective, as they promoted the reduction of blood pressure levels, as well as adherence to treatment, change in lifestyle, better perception of quality of life and empowerment of hypertensive adults.

Conclusion

Strategies for health promotion are essential to enable hypertensive adults to analyze their health status and make decisions for planning and maintaining self-care.

Keywords:
health promotion; hypertension; quality of life; review literature as topic