'Teaching: individual' to improve adherence in hypertension and type 2 diabetes.

Educational interventions with a multifaceted approach have proven effective to improve adherence to therapeutic regimens in people with chronic diseases. The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a nursing intervention involving individual teaching compared with usual care to improve adherence with therapeutic regimens in people with hypertension and/or type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This was a parallel randomised two-arm clinical trial in 200 patients from a primary care programme.

COVID-19 in Health-Care Workers: A Living Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prevalence, Risk Factors, Clinical Characteristics, and Outcomes.

Health-care workers (HCWs) are at the frontline of response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), being at a higher risk of acquiring the disease and, subsequently, exposing patients and others. Searches of 8 bibliographic databases were performed to systematically review the evidence on the prevalence, risk factors, clinical characteristics, and prognosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection among HCWs. A total of 97 studies (all published in 2020) met the inclusion criteria.

Influential Factors in Adherence to the Therapeutic Regime in Hypertension and Diabetes.

Objectives: To determine the factors associated with adherence to the therapeutic regime in patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus cared for in primary care centers.

Methods: This was an analytical cross-sectional study, conducted with 500 patients from two institutions in Bucaramanga (Colombia). Adherence to the therapeutic regime was measured with the label of Nursing outcomes "Treatment Behavior: Illness or Injury" and the instrument "Factors that influence on adherence to pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments" by Ortiz Suárez was used.

"Teaching: Individual" to increase adherence to therapeutic regimen in people with hypertension and type-2 diabetes: protocol of the controlled clinical trial ENURSIN.

Background: Worldwide, hypertension affects approximately 25% of the adult population and diabetes about 8.5%. Lack of adherence to prescribed treatment regimen remains a problem among patients undergoing long-term treatment, showing high non-adherence rates, at estimated range of between 36 and 93%.