Pedro Melo1, Dário Miranda2, Sandra Santos2, Sérgio Sousa3, Teresa Cardoso3, Alexandra Pereira4. 1. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal. 2. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Institute of Health Sciences/School of Nursing (Porto), 4169-005 Porto, Portugal. 3. Public Health Unit, Local Health Unit of Matosinhos, 4450-021 Matosinhos, Portugal. 4. Nursing Information System Department, Portugal Northern Health Administration, 4000-477 Porto, Portugal.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Epidemiological surveillance of a nursing diagnosis is an approach anchored in a post-modern epidemiology focused on a person's health disease responses. Regarding public health priorities, the population where our study occurred had as a priority problem arterial hypertension. Related to this chronic disease, nursing diagnoses about health disease responses in primary healthcare has, as a major focus, Therapeutic Regimen Management. Our aim was to study the nursing diagnosis in this issue from an epidemiological approach. METHODS: A descriptive study from an epidemiological approach was developed, analyzing nursing diagnoses in hypertensive patients. RESULTS: We found 17.7% of undiagnosed patients and better diagnoses in patients with complications than in those without complications. CONCLUSIONS: Nursing records need to be improved in order to promote more robust studies in the post-modern epidemiology for the future.
BACKGROUND: Epidemiological surveillance of a nursing diagnosis is an approach anchored in a post-modern epidemiology focused on a person's health disease responses. Regarding public health priorities, the population where our study occurred had as a priority problem arterial hypertension. Related to this chronic disease, nursing diagnoses about health disease responses in primary healthcare has, as a major focus, Therapeutic Regimen Management. Our aim was to study the nursing diagnosis in this issue from an epidemiological approach. METHODS: A descriptive study from an epidemiological approach was developed, analyzing nursing diagnoses in hypertensivepatients. RESULTS: We found 17.7% of undiagnosed patients and better diagnoses in patients with complications than in those without complications. CONCLUSIONS: Nursing records need to be improved in order to promote more robust studies in the post-modern epidemiology for the future.
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Keywords:
arterial hypertension; epidemiological surveillance; nursing diagnosis; public health nursing