Sociodemographic characteristics and health conditions of elderly patients in primary health care
International Journal of Development Research
Sociodemographic characteristics and health conditions of elderly patients in primary health care
Received 25th June, 2019; Received in revised form, 29th July, 2019; Accepted 20th August, 2019; Published online 30th September, 2019.
Copyright © 2019, Glauce Vivianne da Silva Andrade et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: Todescribe the sociodemographic characteristics and health conditions of elderly patients in Primary Health Care. Method: Exploratory, descriptive, cross-sectional study, with quantitative character, developed with 50 elderly patients enrolled in Basic Health Units of five health districts of the municipality of Campina Grande-PB. Resulted: There was a predominance of women (76%), marital status married (48%), low educational level, age range from 60 to 69 years (56%), low monthly income and pardo color (48%). Regarding health condition, diseases of the circulatory system (98%), especially systemic arterial hypertension, were the most self-reported health problems, followed by diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (86%) and eye diseases (64%). Conclusion: The study may contribute to the planning of actions of prevention and health promotion directed at specificities of the elderly population, especially for the nurse, who meets closely the needs of this population.
