Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:27:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Flavia Urbini.pdf: 268291 bytes, checksum: 8e79c56903cfc5e622f2251b90bd83fc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-07 / Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas / Hypertension has been studied by many health professionals. According to many researches hypertension is caused by an association of many different risk factors, and stress could be one of them. There are several of studies that demonstrate stress effects on hypertensive patients. The purpose of this study was to verify the possible association between stressful events and hypertensive crises occurrence. This sample was comprised by 20 women whose age was around 45-55. All data were collected in one-section interview with hypertensive urgency patients, and the instruments used were: The Inventory of Stress Symptoms (ISSL), and the Stress Sources Scale. According to the results, most of the subjects had the stress diagnosis, and the present stressors average in the last 6 months was 3,15. The most frequent stressor found was threat to personal integrity These results suggest that new and larger researches are necessary to deeply understand the influence of stressful events on the hypertensive urgency occurrence. / A hipertens?o tem sido muito estudada pelos profissionais da ?rea da sa?de. Considera-se a hipertens?o uma doen?a causada pela associa??o de diferentes fatores de risco, entre eles o stress. Os efeitos do stress no paciente hipertenso, assim como em pacientes com outras doen?as, v?m merecendo aten??o, considerando-se sua grande influ?ncia. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a poss?vel rela??o entre os eventos estressantes e a ocorr?ncia da urg?ncia hipertensiva. Participaram vinte mulheres com idade m?dia de 45-55 nos. Os dados foram coletados em um ?nico encontro com o paciente em urg?ncia hipertensiva. Foram utilizados os seguintes instrumentos: Invent?rio de Sintomas de Stress para Adultos e Escala de Fontes de Stress. A maioria dos participantes apresentou o diagn?stico de stress e a m?dia do n?mero de fontes estressoras presentes nos ?ltimos seis meses foi 3,15. O tipo de fonte de stress mais freq?ente foi a amea?a ? integridade. Esses resultados sugerem novas pesquisas nessa ?rea com maior n?mero de participantes para uma melhor compreens?o da influ?ncia dos eventos estressantes na ocorr?ncia da urg?ncia hipertensiva.