Tecnologia educativa sobre hipertensão: avaliação da aprendizagem entre homens e mulheres

Abstract

Hypertension is a multifactorial condition, in which the patient has constant high blood pressure. Countries such as Brazil displays higher mortality rates caused by ypertension illness', affecting both men and women. Men are harder to reach relating to health education, presenting the lowest life expectancy and an important knowledge deficit despite the creation and implementation of the Política Nacional de Atenção Integral à Saúde do Homem. The aim was to assess and compare knowledge of men and women about risk factors and means to prevent arterial hypertension, by utilizing an accessible online manual on arterial hypertension. The study’s method is quasi-experimental to assess learning, that data collects took place in January 2017 until March 2018 in an educational facility for the blind and in the homes of seeing people. Participated in this study 117 people, 72 seeing people and 45 blind people. There was a predominance of non-hypertensive individuals (81.2%); women (63.2%); 18-39 years (43.6%); secondary education (47.9%); Catholic (72.6%); employed (53.8%); receiving income up to 2 minimum wages (61.5%). Regarding the evaluation of learning, when comparing the correct affirmatives between pre- and post-test, a significant increase (p<0.0001) in the post-test average scores was observed at all levels of complexity, with a higher roportion in high complexity ones. By evaluating gender, there was no statistical significance between the number of their correct affirmatives, both groups presented similar mean, median and average median, with higher proportion in high complexity ones. It has been concluded that is not possible to differentiate learning by gender, both genders have similar capacities of interest and learning. Also, that the accessible online manual on arterial hypertension is an effective tool to build knowledge about this disease.