Necessidades psicoespirituais alteradas em portadores de hipertensão arterial cadastrados em um centro de saúde

Abstract

The present research aimed to approach the occurrence of spiritual changes recorded by nurses during consultations to people with SAH in a health center located in a city in the State of Paraná. This was a descriptive and quantitative research focused on the population of hypertensive patients registered in the School Health Center (SHC) of a city located in the Northwestern Paraná State. From the 148 hypertensive patients enrolled, we used a sample of 110 medical records for data collection, through a systematic probabilistic sample. The study was conducted from June to July 2009, by researchers members of the Scientific Initiation Program from the Universidade Paranaense – UNIPAR, bound to the institutional research “Taking care of hypertensive patients: the nursing taxonomies used in a health center” and to the “Group of study on hypertension”, registered in the Directory of Research of the CNPQ. This study was funded by Universidade Paranaense – UNIPAR. To this research we just used data relative to changed psycho-spiritual HBN, such as, religious or theological, ethics and philosophy of life, included in the nursing evolution of the first consultation. From the 110 medical charts analyzed, in only 2 cases we registered changed psycho-spiritual needs, evidencing an occurrence in 1.8% of SAH patients. This work showed that changed psycho-spiritual needs are occurring at low percentage among the population target of this study, supposedly by a lack of nursing research focusing this type of change.