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Efficiency of health education programs for adults with high blood pressure

It is of great importance to acknowledge health education strategies nurses use on patients with highblood pressure, seeing how they respond and if the method is eficient for for them. The aim was to analise researches which focused on strategies to develop health education for adults with highblood pressure. This is a bibliography study which used data basis from MEDLINE. The abstracts found showed the folowing themes: highblood pressure, education and nursing. After the analisis two articles in english fitted in the stablished criteria. It was noticed that organized programes improve health conditions in factors such as highblood pressure risks and aproval to the treatment given, being noticed a change of behavior and adherence to the drug treatment.

High pressure; Nursing; Health education


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