Social networks help chronic patients not to abandon his treatment.
Social networks help chronic patients not to abandon their treatment. – many hypertensive patients are unaware that they are and about half of those diagnosed it leaves the treatment during the first year Lleida, February 2012. Social media in the field of health (health 2.0) help to take control of chronic patients, diabetic or hypertensive, and that they comply with the recommendations of health professionals. Thus agree that different works presented in the day update on Cardiovascular risk factors organized by the Santa Maria Hospital of Lleida in collaboration with the Catalan society d ’ Hipertensió Arterial, open forum for health professionals involved in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. A study published in January in the journal International Journal of Medical Informatics describes the potential of social networks of patients, families and professionals health in diseases of long duration: increase the adherence to the treatment and care that these patients in self-management of your health ”, according to the authors, Institute of public health of the University of Twente in the Netherlands. These findings confirm those obtained in previous research with diabetic patients published in the Journal of Health Communication Magazine, he claimed social networks that connect chronic patients with relatives and friends offer positive results of adherence to treatment and medication; as well as in the evolution of the disease ”. Also concluded that these patients experience clear...
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