Association between perceived stress and sleep quality in resistant hypertensive patients: cross-sectional study / Associação do estresse percebido e qualidade do sono de hipertensos resistentes: estudo transversal
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https://doi.org/10.9789/2175-5361.rpcfo.v17.13654Keywords:
HIPERTENSÃO, COVID, TELEMONITORAMENTOAbstract
Objective: analyze the association between perceived stress and sleep quality in resistant hypertensive patients during the Covid-19 pandemic. Method: cross-sectional, observational, descriptive, and analytical study with a quantitative approach involving 40 resistant hypertensive patients. Data were collected through medical records and validated questionnaires via telemonitoring, using online forms from january to march 2022. Analyses were performed using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), version 22.0. Results: it was observed that 33.1% of hypertensive patients exhibited high perceived stress, and 50% of the sample presented sleep disturbances. Conclusion: the study analyzed the typical profile of the sample, identifying a correlation between high perceived stress scores and high sleep disturbance scores. This contributes to a better understanding of the issue and provides support for developing coping strategies and care policies in crisis situations and pandemics, such as the one caused by the coronavirus.
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