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KNOWLEDGEABILITY OF SYSTEMIC ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION IN ECONOMIC CLASSES AT PARQUE AMAZONIA I COMMUNITY, IN BELÉM, PARÁ, BRAZIL

AGDA MORGANA ALVES ALVES 1 ; FRANCISCO ELIVELTON FERREIRA DE ANDRADE 1 ; GABRIELLY RODRIGUES MOURA 2 ; LORENA DE NAZARE DOS REIS E SILVA GOMES 1 ; LUCIANO MOURA DE ASSUNÇÃO 1 ; MARCIO YAGO CORREA GAIA 1 ; MARIA DE NAZARE ALVES DE LIMA 3 ; MAYRA ABRAHÃO NEGRÃO 2 ; ROSANGELA CAMILA MACIEL MAIA 1 ; SAVIO DIEGO DO NASCIMENTO CAVALCANTE 1 ; VELUMA PRISCILA DUARTE CORREA 1
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Introduction and Aims: Systemic Arterial Hypertension (SAH) is an important factor that leads to cardiac, renal and vascular impairment. Social circumstances interact directly with physiological conditions to determine propensity of different diseases, therefore, it was fundamental to identify socioeconomical classes inserted within the Parque Amazonia I community, in order to correlate their knowledge about SAH and economical profiles. Methods: Individual questionnaires based on knowledge about hypertension, education levels and possession of assets were applied to 41 participants, aged 18 years and over. Based on theirs answers about SAH, a score was used to evaluate knowledge, where scores ranging from 0-5 were classified as Bad and 6-9 were classified as Good. Results were analyzed with Microsoft Excel. Results and Conclusion: Of all interviewed, 60.97% were categorized in D-E economical class, 24.39% in C2-class and 12.19% in C1-class. 41.46% had results scoring their knowledge of SAH as Bad, 56.09% of the results scored Good. In D-E participants, 40% presented knowledge evaluated as Bad and 60% Good. In C2-class interviewees, 60% were scored as Bad and 30% Good. C1-class had 60% scored Good and 40% Bad. B2-class participants were scored 100% Good. In general, it is terrifying that knowlegdeability of almost half of the interviewees of a disease such as SAH, with high morbidity and incidence rates, were scored as Bad. Classes D-E and C2 had very close results and scored higher indices than C1-class. It is essential to increase population’s knowledge of SAH, considering its morbidity, mortality and its high incidence at regional and national levels.