Atenção farmacêutica em idosos com hipertensão participantes da estratégia saúde da família

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Flávia Carnavalli [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Hipertensão; Atenção farmacêutica; Medicina social; Medicamentos; Idosos - Assistência farmacêutica; Idosos - Assistência domiciliar; Hypertension
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134013

Systemic arterial hypertension in the elderly people is a very common clinical condition, which mainly in recent years has been showing an increase in the number of cases, affecting 55% of Brazilian elderly (≥ 65 years old). It is a disease, which demands high medical and socioeconomic costs arising from its complications, especially when the patient does not adhere to treatment, leading to a critical public health problem. The pharmaceutical care can help in adherence to therapy, as it is a practice with interaction between the pharmacist and patient, which detects problems related to drugs in order to help patients to have a rational pharmacotherapy. In this context, health policies such as the Family Health Strategy in addition to the pharmacotherapeutic follow-up services contribute to the disease prevention and improve the care of elderly people with hypertension. This study was a controlled randomized, prospective clinical trial aimed to evaluate and carry out the pharmacotherapeutic follow-up in elderly patients with hypertension linked to a Family Health Strategy Unit of Araraquara-SP. It had as the primary endpoint: implementing the pharmacotherapeutic follow-up model in elderly patients with systemic arterial hypertension and evaluating its effectiveness in the public health system at the level of Primary Care, specifically in the Family Health Strategy. And as a secondary endpoint: adequating clinical and anthropometric parameters of patients to the ranges using the values described in the Brazilian guidelines as a basis, besides increasing the patients adherence to drug therapy, self-knowledge about the disease and improving the patients quality of life. This study was conducted with 62 registered users in the Family Health Strategy, divided into two groups: control (31) and intervention (31). It was used pharmaceutical care method based on Pharmacist's Workup of Drug Therapy to carry out the pharmacotherapeutic follow-up, ...