Motivational Interviewing in the Control of Arterial Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

In Diabetes and hypertension, nursing consultations to support the care should be focused on their educational component the orientation of measures that prove to reduce blood pressure, improve the glycemic indices, the lipid profile and the Cardiovascular risk classification, among them: adherence to drug therapy, proper diet, body weight maintenance, stimulating active life and regular physical exercise, reducing alcoholic beverage consumption, reducing stress and abandoning Smoking. In this group, these care will be addressed based on the principles and techniques of the Motivational Interviewing.

In Diabetes and hypertension, nursing consultations to support the care should be focused on their educational component the orientation of measures that prove to reduce blood pressure, improve the glycemic indices, the lipid profile and the Cardiovascular risk classification, among them: adherence to drug therapy, proper diet, body weight maintenance, stimulating active life and regular physical exercise, reducing alcoholic beverage consumption, reducing stress and abandoning Smoking. In this group, these care will be approached in a conventional manner, as routine of the services, based on the recommendations of the Primary Care Strategy Notebooks for the care of chronic conditions in DM2 and SAH and the SSC-GHC Institutional Protocol for SAH and DM2 Patient Care.