Nutrition and health-related quality of life among people with hypertension

Autores/as

  • Patrícia Costa dos Santos da Silva
    • Silvana Maria Coelho Leite Fava
      • Juliana Pereira Machado
        • Simone Maria Muniz da Silva Bezerra
          • Michelle Pita Tavares Gonçalves
            • Eugenia Velludo Veiga

              DOI:

              https://doi.org/10.15253/2175-6783.2014000600015

              Palabras clave:

              Feeding, Quality of life, Hypertension, Primary Health Care, Nursing.

              Resumen

              Aimed at analyzing the association between diet and health-related quality of life of people with systemic arterial hypertension. A descriptive-analytic study of 397 hypertensive people conducted from April to July 2013 attended by a family health strategy center unit in south Minas Gerais, MG, Brazil. The Minichal instrument was used for evaluating health-related quality of life and another instrument was used for nutrition. The average value found in the Minichal instrument was 4.2 in the mental state domain and 3.4 in the domain of somatic manifestations. Most participants had partially adequate nutrition; 67.8% mentioned not receiving any advice or treatment for weight loss; obesity was present in 35.5%. It was concluded that diet is significantly associated with mental state.

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              Publicado

              2014-12-21

              Número

              Vol. 15 Núm. 6 (2014)

              Sección

              Artigos de Pesquisa

              Cómo citar

              1.
              Silva PC dos S da, Fava SMCL, Machado JP, Bezerra SMM da S, Gonçalves MPT, Veiga EV. Nutrition and health-related quality of life among people with hypertension. Rev Rene [Internet]. 2014 Dec. 21 [cited 2026 Jun. 24];15(6). Available from: https://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/3304