Biopsychosocial variables and attitudes towards treatment influence complicated hypertension.

Background: Complicated hypertension can be influenced by the characteristics of hypertensive patients.

Objective: To associate the condition of complicated hypertension with biosocial variables such as attitudes and beliefs about the disease and treatment and subjective well-being.

Methods: We studied 251 uncomplicated hypertensive patients (SBP > 140 mmHg and/or 90 < DBP < 110 mmHg for patients under no treatment and DBP <110mmHg for patients under treatment without target organ damage and other diseases) and 260 complicated hypertensive patients (DBP > 110 mmHg with or without treatment, with target organ damage or other diseases).

[Prejudice in nursing: perception of nurses educated in different decades].

The objective of this qualitative study, of a historical-social nature, was to learn and understand the perceptions of a group of nurses, who graduated in different decades, regarding the prejudice and forms of coping involved in choosing the profession, during their university studies, or in professional practice. Oral Life History and content analysis were used. The EEUSP Research Ethics Committee approved this study.