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- Title
Predictive Factors of the Nursing Diagnosis Sedentary Lifestyle in People with High Blood Pressure.
- Authors
Guedes, Nirla Gomes; Lopes, Marcos Venícios de Oliveira; Araujo, Thelma Leite de; Moreira, Rafaella Pessoa; Martins, Larissa Castelo Guedes
- Abstract
To verify the reproducibility of defining the characteristics and related factors in order to identify a sedentary lifestyle in patients with high blood pressure. A cross-sectional study. 310 patients diagnosed with high blood pressure. Socio-demographics and variables related to defining the characteristics and related factors of a sedentary lifestyle. The coefficient Kappa was utilized to analyze the reproducibility. The sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value of the defining characteristics were also analyzed. Logistic regression was applied in the analysis of possible predictors. The defining characteristic with the greatest sensitivity was demonstrates physical deconditioning (98.92%). The characteristics chooses a daily routine lacking physical exercise and verbalizes preference for activities low in physical activity presented higher values of specificity (99.21% and 95.97%, respectively). The following indicators were identified as powerful predictors (85.2%) for the identification of a sedentary lifestyle: demonstrates physical deconditioning, verbalizes preference for activities low in physical activity, and lack of training for accomplishment of physical exercise.
- Subjects
ANALYSIS of variance; CLINICAL medicine; COMMUNITY health nursing; EXERCISE; HABIT; HYPERTENSION; NURSING assessment; RESEARCH evaluation; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); TERMS &; phrases; VERBAL behavior; CARDIOVASCULAR fitness; LOGISTIC regression analysis; KEY performance indicators (Management); PREDICTIVE validity; CROSS-sectional method; HEALTH literacy; SEDENTARY lifestyles
- Publication
Public Health Nursing, 2011, Vol 28, Issue 2, p193
- ISSN
0737-1209
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1525-1446.2010.00902.x