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ArticlePloS one2016

Effectiveness of Educational Technology in Promoting Quality of Life and Treatment Adherence in Hypertensive People.

Ana Célia Caetano de Souza, Thereza Maria Magalhaes Moreira, Edmar Souza de Oliveira, Anaíze Viana Bezerra de Menezes, Aline Maria Oliveira Loureiro, Camila Brasileiro de Araújo Silva, Jair Gomes Linard, Italo Lennon Sales de Almeida, Samuel Miranda Mattos, José Wicto Pereira Borges

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Article in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ana Célia Caetano de SouzaPostgraduate Program Clinical Care in Nursing and Health (PPCCLIS), Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE), Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, Center for Research and Development of Medicines (NPDM), Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Thereza Maria Magalhaes MoreiraPostgraduate Program Clinical Care in Nursing and Health (PPCCLIS), Postgraduate Program in Public Health (PPSAC), Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Edmar Souza de OliveiraHospital Carlos Alberto Studart Gomes, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Anaíze Viana Bezerra de MenezesUniversidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE), Fortaleza, Brazil.
Aline Maria Oliveira LoureiroLiver Transplant Unit, Hospital Geral de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Camila Brasileiro de Araújo SilvaPostgraduate Program in Public Health (PPSAC), Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Jair Gomes LinardPostgraduate Program in Public Health (PPSAC), Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Italo Lennon Sales de AlmeidaScholarship of scientific initiation, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Samuel Miranda MattosScholarship of scientific initiation, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
José Wicto Pereira BorgesPostgraduate Program Clinical Care in Nursing and Health (PPCCLIS), Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil, Postgraduate Program in Health and Community (PPGSC), Universidade Federal do Piauí, Teresina, Brazil.
Universidade Estadual do Ceará · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective of this study was to test the effectiveness of an educational intervention with use of educational technology (flipchart) to promote quality of life (QOL) and treatment adherence in people with hypertension. It was an intervention study of before-and-after type conducted with 116 hypertensive people registered in Primary Health Care Units. The educational interventions were conducted using the flipchart educational technology. Quality of life was assessed through the MINICHAL (lowest score = better QOL) and the QATSH (higher score = better adherence) was used to assess the adherence to hypertension treatment. Both were measured before and after applying the intervention. In the analysis, we used the Student's t-test for paired data. The average baseline quality of life was 11.66 ± 7.55, and 7.71 ± 5.72 two months after the intervention, showing a statistically significant reduction (p <0.001) and mean of differences of 3.95. The average baseline adherence to treatment was 98.03 ± 7.08 and 100.71 ± 6.88 two months after the intervention, which is statistically significant (p < 0.001), and mean of differences of 2.68. The conclusion was that the educational intervention using the flipchart improved the total score of quality of life in the scores of physical and mental domains, and increased adherence to hypertension treatment in people with the disease.

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Educational TechnologyHealth EducationMedication AdherenceQuality of LifeAdultAgedBlood PressureBody Mass IndexBody WeightDemographyDiastoleFemaleHumansHypertensionMaleMiddle Aged

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PMID27851752
PMCPMC5112805
OpenAlexW2554462000

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