Medical education in the educational-therapeutic diagnosis of hypertensive patients with altered arterial stiffness

Authors

  • María Eugenia Céspedes García University of Medical Sciences of Santiago de Cuba.
  • Homero Calixto Fuentes González University of Medical Sciences of Santiago de Cuba.
  • Niurka Traba Delis University of Medical Sciences of Santiago de Cuba.
  • Josefa Bell Castillo University of Medical Sciences of Santiago de Cuba.
  • Jorge Gallego Galano University of Medical Sciences of Santiago de Cuba.

Keywords:

hypertension, strategies, risk factors, health status indicators, research design, health promotion, education, medical

Abstract

Background: the preventive nature of the Cuban health system, as a principle for its development, guides the training of a doctor who consistently responds to the health problems of the population; hence medical education prepares them to apply the latest scientific findings in disease prevention and treatment.
Objective: to assess the contribution of an educational-therapeutic diagnostic strategy aimed at preventing vascular complications caused by hypertension.
Methods: a pedagogical research was carried out at “José Martí Pérez” University Polyclinic in Santiago de Cuba during 2019. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis, systemic-structural, holistic-dialectical, hermeneutical-dialectical and inductive-deductive; empirical ones: surveys, documentary analysis, socialization workshop with specialists, and educational techniques; statistics: descriptive techniques and percentage analysis.
Results: a strategy consisting of educational-therapeutic intervention actions was applied, it was concretized in a health educational diagnosis project, which allowed to increase the level of knowledge of hypertensive patients about their disease; after its implementation, it was found that they did not develop vascular complications, which generated a greater commitment to their health.
Conclusions: the specialists valued the professional scientific nature of the strategy and its relevance as adequate. Its implementation contributed to the education of patients as a contribution to medical education at the primary health care level.

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Author Biographies

María Eugenia Céspedes García, University of Medical Sciences of Santiago de Cuba.

Doctor in medicine. II Degree Specialist in Internal Medicine. Doctor in Pedagogical Sciences. Associate Professor. Principal researcher. General Teaching Hospital “Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso â€. Santiago de Cuba.

Homero Calixto Fuentes González, University of Medical Sciences of Santiago de Cuba.

Degree in physics. Doctor in Pedagogical Sciences. Emeritus Professor. Associate Professor. Principal researcher. General Teaching Hospital "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso". Santiago de Cuba.

Niurka Traba Delis, University of Medical Sciences of Santiago de Cuba.

Doctor in medicine. First Degree Specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine. Assistant teacher. "José Martí Pérez" University Polyclinic. Santiago de Cuba.

Josefa Bell Castillo, University of Medical Sciences of Santiago de Cuba.

Doctor in medicine. II Degree Specialist in Internal Medicine. Doctor in Pedagogical Sciences. Associate Professor. General Teaching Hospital "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso". Santiago de Cuba.

Jorge Gallego Galano, University of Medical Sciences of Santiago de Cuba.

Doctor in medicine. II Degree Specialist in Internal Medicine. Assistant Professor. General Teaching Hospital "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso". Santiago de Cuba.

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Published

2020-10-01

How to Cite

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Céspedes García ME, Fuentes González HC, Traba Delis N, Bell Castillo J, Gallego Galano J. Medical education in the educational-therapeutic diagnosis of hypertensive patients with altered arterial stiffness. EDUMEC [Internet]. 2020 Oct. 1 [cited 2025 Jul. 1];12(4). Available from: https://revedumecentro.sld.cu/index.php/edumc/article/view/1700

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 4 (2020)

Section

ARTÍCULO ORIGINAL

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