Objective.
To analyze the process of psychosocial adjustment to illness in a sample of people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Methods.
Cross-sectional analytical study. The sample consisted of 144 HIV-positive people chosen by simple random sampling. The PAIS-S...
Objective: To establish the degree of pharmacological and clinical compliance of family caregivers of HIV-exposed children as well as the sociodemographic factors associated with care performance.
Materials and methods: Cross-sectional study conducted with 40 caregivers of children exposed to HIV and un...
Objetivo: identificar os preditores psicossociais que influenciam a intenção comportamental de tomar os anti-hipertensivos orais. Materiais e métodos: estudo transversal, fundamentado na teoria do comportamento planejado. Aplicou-se um questionário construído e validado a 220 indivíduos com hiperte...
Objective. To explore the relation between adherence to secondary prevention and factors that influence on said adherence in people with acute coronary syndrome, who underwent percutaneous coronary angioplasty in a clinic in Medellín. Methods. Cross-sectional study on a random sample of 128 volunteer pa...
Objective. To determine the factors associated with adherence to the therapeutic regime in patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus cared for in primary care centers. Methods. This was an analytical cross-sectional study, conducted with 500 patients from two institutions in Bucaramanga (Co...
Objective. To determine the validity and reliability of the Treatment Adherence Questionnaire for Patients with Hypertension (TAQPH), Spanish version, designed by Chunhua Ma et al. Methods. This study was carried out in the city of Ibagué (Colombia) and the test validation determined validity (face, co...
ABSTRACT Objective: This work sought to describe the meanings constructed by patients with coronary disease (PCD) the communication process used by nurses during the transition from the hospital (coronary care unit) to the home for therapeutic adherence. Method: The article corresponds to a qualitati...
