Primary Care and General Pediatrics

This study is aimed to know how Xerente people understand systemic hypertension and health care.

 

Method: field research with qualitative measures, ethnographic approach, with 29 hypertensive indigenous Xerente. The data was based on Leininger analysis, it proposes the ethnographic method for Nursing, which divides the analysis into four phases: First phase is to collect and documentation gathering of raw data.  Second is consisted in the study of data which observes similarities and differences in statements and behaviors. Third was held and contextual analysis of patterns. Finally, the fourth stage are the issues, findings and relevant theoretical formulations being analyzed and synthesized.  

 

Results: The power of indigenous people and their eating habits have undergone through changes over the years due to the contact with the city.  The indigenous Xerente population  does not perform any type of physical exercise in the villages. Much of the interviewees claim that they use the medicine prescribed by the doctor and also make use of plants as medicine.  

 

Conclusion: The indigenous hypertensive recognizes the process of being ill in their body, however, the health care for the same needs to be related to their way of life at the village. It's concluded that the necessary provision in health care in a way that meets the needs of indigenous in respect to their cultural values, through the inclusion of indigenous services and conducting health education activities, it is critical the training of professionals working with indigenous health.