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No contexto das doenças crónicas a hipertensão arterial assume uma expressão significativa e o seu significado está bem patente enquanto fator de risco para as doenças cardiovasculares. O estudo da sua relação com a sintomatologia ansiosa e depressiva tem despertado o interesse da investigação, porém, os dados da literatura não são consensuais sobre a relação destas variáveis com a hipertensão arterial. Para além disso, a relação entre comportamentos agressivos e hipertensão é também muito pouco estudada na literatura.
A presente investigação contou com 120 participantes, divididos em dois grupos, o Grupo Hipertenso (Grupo 1) e o Grupo Não Hipertenso (Grupo 2), tendo sido formulados cinco objetivos: avaliar a existência de diferenças entre sexo e idade relativamente às variáveis psicológicas (sintomatologia depressiva e ansiosa); avaliar a existência de diferenças entre sexo e níveis etários relativamente ao comportamento agressivo; avaliar a existência de diferenças na tensão arterial em função das variáveis sociodemográficas sexo e idade; avaliar a existência de diferenças entre o grupo hipertenso e o grupo não-hipertensos considerando as variáveis sintomatologia ansiosa, sintomatologia depressiva e comportamento agressivo; avaliar a relação existente entre a tensão arterial e as variáveis de indicadores de saúde mental e comportamento agressivo.
Para a concretização dos objetivos anteriormente referidos foram utilizados dois instrumentos: o Inventário de Sintomas Psicopatológicos (BSI) e aAggressive Behavior Scale (ABS). com recurso ao primeiro instrumento foram utilizadas apenas as escalas “Depressão” e “Ansiedade” para avaliar a sintomatologia depressiva e ansiosa, enquanto que o ABS, permitiu avaliar os comportamentos agressivos dos participantes. Quanto aos valores de tensão arterial, alguns destes foram recolhidos de forma presencial, enquanto que outros foram reportados pelos participantes. Assim, a recolha dos dados deste estudo foi feita on-line e presencialmente.
Relativamente às hipóteses colocadas nesta investigação, foram encontradas diferenças estatisticamente significativas nos valores de comportamento agressivo em função de níveis etários, tendo o grupo de 70-89 anos apresentado médias superiores aos restantes grupos. Para além disso, foram encontradas diferenças estatisticamente significativas entre o grupo de participantes hipertensos e não hipertensos, em função das pontuações em sintomatologia depressiva e ansiosa. Por fim, foi possível verificar, através desta investigação, uma relação significativa entre a hipertensão arterial e a sintomatologia depressiva, existindo correlação estaticamente significativa entre hipertensão sintomatologia depressiva e ansiosa.
Amongst chronic diseases hypertension stands with a considerable expression and is heavily linked to cardiovascular diseases as a risk factor. Its relation with anxious and depressive symptoms has been subject to different research studies but it didn’t achieve consensus between researchers. Apart from that the link between aggressive behaviour and hypertension isn’t very popular within literature. This following research study focused on a population of 120 people which was divided in two groups: Hypertensive Group (Group 1) and Non Hypertensive Group (Group 2). There were five different goals: to assess the existence of differences between gender and age related to the psychological variables (anxious and depressive symptoms); to assess the existence of differences between gender and age related to aggressive behaviour; assess if there is any influence from socio-demographic factors, gender and age towards hypertension; assess any possible differences between the two groups of participants and the existence of anxious symptoms, depressive symptoms and aggressive behaviour; assess any interconnection between hypertension and any mental health variants and aggressive behaviour. To achieve the previously listed goals two different instruments were used: (1) Psychopathological Symptoms Inventory; (2) Aggressive Behavior Scale (ABS). The first instrument only used the factors “Depression” and “Anxiety” to assess anxious and depressive symptoms. ABS was then used to assess aggressive behaviour. In regard to blood pressure readings some of them were gathered in person while others were provided by the participants. Data collection for this study was done online and in person. Regarding the conjectures from this study, aggressive behaviour varies statistically according to participants’ age. The group between 70-89 years old stands with a higher mean than the other groups. Apart from that there were also statistic differences between the Hypertensive Group and the Non Hypertensive Group regarding anxious and depressive symptoms. Non Hypertensive Group had a higher score. At last it was possible to establish a significant link between hypertension and depressive symptoms. It represents a significant statistic interconnection between hypertensive participants and anxious and depressive symptoms. The other conjectures from this study weren’t confirmed.
Amongst chronic diseases hypertension stands with a considerable expression and is heavily linked to cardiovascular diseases as a risk factor. Its relation with anxious and depressive symptoms has been subject to different research studies but it didn’t achieve consensus between researchers. Apart from that the link between aggressive behaviour and hypertension isn’t very popular within literature. This following research study focused on a population of 120 people which was divided in two groups: Hypertensive Group (Group 1) and Non Hypertensive Group (Group 2). There were five different goals: to assess the existence of differences between gender and age related to the psychological variables (anxious and depressive symptoms); to assess the existence of differences between gender and age related to aggressive behaviour; assess if there is any influence from socio-demographic factors, gender and age towards hypertension; assess any possible differences between the two groups of participants and the existence of anxious symptoms, depressive symptoms and aggressive behaviour; assess any interconnection between hypertension and any mental health variants and aggressive behaviour. To achieve the previously listed goals two different instruments were used: (1) Psychopathological Symptoms Inventory; (2) Aggressive Behavior Scale (ABS). The first instrument only used the factors “Depression” and “Anxiety” to assess anxious and depressive symptoms. ABS was then used to assess aggressive behaviour. In regard to blood pressure readings some of them were gathered in person while others were provided by the participants. Data collection for this study was done online and in person. Regarding the conjectures from this study, aggressive behaviour varies statistically according to participants’ age. The group between 70-89 years old stands with a higher mean than the other groups. Apart from that there were also statistic differences between the Hypertensive Group and the Non Hypertensive Group regarding anxious and depressive symptoms. Non Hypertensive Group had a higher score. At last it was possible to establish a significant link between hypertension and depressive symptoms. It represents a significant statistic interconnection between hypertensive participants and anxious and depressive symptoms. The other conjectures from this study weren’t confirmed.
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Comportamento Agressivo Hipertensão Arterial Sintomatologia Ansiosa Sintomatologia Depressiva