Association among nursing diagnoses, demographic variables, and clinical characteristics of patients with high blood pressure

Abstract

Objectives: To analyze the association among diagnoses, demographic variables, and clinical characteristics of patients with high blood pressure. Methods: The data were collected in 67 patients from a primary care unit in Fortaleza, Brazil. The NANDA Taxonomy was used to determine the nursing diagnoses. Data analysis consisted of Fisher's exact test, Chi-square test, and likelihood ratio test. Results: Fifty four nursing diagnoses were identified; fifteen were above the 75th percentile. Ineffective individual therapeutic regimen management and number of medication, sleep pattern disturbance and marital status, activity intolerance and education, activity intolerance and time of diagnoses, sexual dysfunction and gender, sexual dysfunction and education, risk for falls and age, marital status and time of diagnoses, chronic pain and marital status all had significant association coefficients. Conclusion: Some demographic characteristics were associated with nursing diagnoses.