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- Title
Sedentary lifestyle in individuals with hypertension.
- Authors
Castelo Guedes Martins, Larissa; Venícios de Oliveira Lopes, Marcos; Gomes Guedes, Nirla; Mendes Nunes, Marília; Maciel Diniz, Camila; Magalhães de Oliveira Carvalho, Priscilla
- Abstract
Objective: to identify the prevalence of nursing diagnosis Sedentary lifestyle (SL) and to analyze its association with clinical indicators (CI) and related factors (RF) in patients with hypertension. Method: cross-sectional study with 285 patients with hypertension at a reference center for outpatient care in Northeastern Brazil. To collect data it was used an instrument based on operational definitions of the CI and RF previously validated. Four nurses rated SL as present or absent. To evaluate the association between CI and RF with the presence of SL it was applied the chi-square test. The prevalence ratio and confidence interval was calculated to verify the magnitude of the effect between RF and SL. Results: SL was identified in 55.8% of the sample. Five IC and six RF showed a significant association with SL. Conclusion: the study identifi es main indicators for inference of SL as well as their possible causal factors among people with hypertension.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CLINICAL medicine; CARDIAC patients; HYPERTENSION; NURSING diagnosis; KEY performance indicators (Management); CROSS-sectional method; SEDENTARY lifestyles; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2015, Vol 68, Issue 6, p697
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167.2015680602i