This study involves participant research which analyzes the lifestyle changes of 20 workers in the prevention risk factors for systematic arterial hypertension, from the application of educational health care technology. The participants were civil construction, general services, and security workers. The data was collected through interviews during August and December of 2006. The results were organized in empirical categories and analyzed based on Bardin's content analysis. The workers revealed their notions on the hypertension syndrome risk factors and prevention conduct. For them, a healthy lifestyle included the practice of physical exercises, stress management, a healthy diet, and the absence of vices. The implementation of educational health care technology enabled lifestyle changes in 16 subjects, motivated them to maintain these changes, and insert other changes that would be necessary for the prevention and/or control of environmental arterial hypertension risk factors, thus preventing or postponing the installation of this aggravation in themselves, in their families, or others.
Hypertension; Health education; Life style; Occupational health