Relaxamento: uma proposta de intervenção com gestantes hipertensas

The arterial hypertension (A.H.) is one of the main problems of the public health. One may consider it for final diagnosis as being primary or secondary. We understand as being primary the hypertension whose cause is unknown and as secondary those whose causes are known and happens in the decorrence of one or more factors. The arterial hypertension causes troubles many times irreversible ones to the health when it is asociated with a specific organic disease or, that is the toxemy of the pregnancy. The arterial hypertension attacks around 10% of the pregnant women being classified as Hypertensive Disease Specific of the Pregnancy and Pre-Existent Cronic Arterial Hypertension and being the most frequent the maternal mortality, the fetus death and prematurity. The objectives of this study were to verify the possibility of the hypertensive pregnants dominate the physical tension and the anxiety through na intervention program with the using of relaxing techniques aiming the control of the blood pressure and thus lessing the risks of the morbity and the maternal-fetus mortality to be taken into account about their clinic list and may evaluate the presence or not of the ansiogenic compounds. Fifteen pregnant women over 18 years old participated of the program divided into three groups: p1 compounded of five pregnants with diagnostic of the SHDG, p2 compounded by five pregnants diagnostic of the cronic A.H. and the third pregnant group nominated as the control group on which was not held any intervention procedure. Medical prontuaries were utilized, a route of a semi-structured interview an inventary of anxiety statetrace (traco-estado) and relaxing techniques. The analyses of data was quantitative and qualitative to the interview through the content analysis. It was observed that the pregnants knew they were hypertenses after their physical symptons and by the former pregnancy and when they discovered the disease they related no emotional alteration. They don’t know anything about the gestation hypertension, they don’t even know how to inform about the risks and the possible consequences but they fear the parturation.there is no significant difference in the levels of the anxiety state-trace (traco-estado) of the groups CH and DH before and after relaxing. The use of the relaxing technique was satisfactory as an intervention as there was a lowing of the blood pressure into 60% of the participating pregnants. In the analyses of the arterial pressure pre and post-intervention was found that into four pregnants of the group CH and two of the group HD there was a difference because the post values are signantly inferior to the pre-intervention ones. The getting results don’t allow us to make generalizatios but, we can conclude that, the using of relaxing as a therapeutic complementary resource to the medical attending was efficient because it helped the pregnants to face the ansiogenic situations and to keep their blood pressure levels under control. These ansiogenic results evidenciated the need of elaboration and implementation of the attending programs to the risk pregnants held by a multidisciplinary group to offer them a complete broadly attending to their needs. Key-words: Relaxing, Pregnancy, Arterial Hypertension, Occupational Therapy.