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    Knowledge of high blood pressure and self-care of the elderly in the cardiology service of a public hospital, Cajamarca 2022
    (Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2022-12-11) Machuca Acuña, Johana Soledad; Palomino Taquire, Rewards
    High blood pressure (HTN) is a pathology with a prevalence that ranges between 60 - 70% in the elderly population. On the other hand, the daily self-care activities that each patient receives are added to the medication treatment that each patient with HTN receives. patient performs according to the information or knowledge he or she has about the disease. Objective: “to determine the relationship between knowledge of high blood pressure and self-care of the elderly in the cardiology service of a public hospital in Cajamarca 2022.” Methodology: hypothetical, quantitative approach, non-experimental design, observational, descriptive, cross-sectional correlational; sample of 168 older adults with a diagnosis of arterial hypertension. Data collection will use 1 questionnaire for the variable of level of knowledge of arterial hypertension with a reliability of 0.87% by Cronbach's Alpha and for the variable of self-care practices a Likert-type scale will be used with a reliability of 0.88% by Cronbach's Alpha. . The statistical analysis that will be used will be parametric and non-parametric tests depending on the distribution of the variable. Spearman's Rho statistician will be used to test the hypothesis and the results will be presented in tables and graphs.