Bakgrund: Studier visar på patienters upplevelse av kommunikation med sjuksköterskor, att sjuksköterskor behöver ha kunskap om kommunikation och kunskap om de funktionsnedsättningar patienter med ADHD kan ha. Tidigare studier belyser också olika kommunikationsteorier som är användbara i vårdrelationer, men inte så mycket om sjuksköterskors upplevelser. Syfte: Att beskriva hur sjuksköterskor vid öppenvårdsmottagningar inom psykiatrin upplever och beskriver kommunikation med vuxna patienter med ADHD. Metod: Studien hade en kvalitativ design där data samlades in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. Analysmetoden utgjordes av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Analysen resulterade i ett tema, fyra kategorier och elva subkategorier. Sjuksköterskor vid öppenvårdsmottagningar upplevde kommunikation med patienter med ADHD som tärande och närande på samma gång. Olika kommunikationstekniker användes i kombination med kunskap om funktionsnedsättningar för att skapa de bästa förutsättningarna för kommunikationen med patienter. Bra bemötande och ett bra förhållningssätt rapporterades vara viktiga i kommunikationen med patienter. Slutsats: Sjuksköterskor inom öppenvårdspsykiatrin upplevde kommunikationen med patienter med ADHD som både närande och tärande. Sjuksköterskorna anpassar kommunikationen efter patientens behov och förmåga, och bemöter alla patienters olika behov med respekt. Sjuksköterskor ansåg att ett bra förhållningssätt och en gott bemötande var viktigt för att kommunikationen med patienter med ADHD skulle fungera optimalt. / Background: Studies show patients' experience of communication with nurses, nurses need to have knowledge of communication and knowledge of disability patients with ADHD may have. Previous studies also illustrate various communication theories that are useful in healthcare relationships, but not so much regarding nurses’ experiences. Aim: To describe how nurses at outpatient psychiatric experience describe communication with adult patients with ADHD. Methods: The study had a qualitative design where data was collected through semi-structured interviews. Qualitative content analysis was used as analytical method. Results: The analyses resulted in one theme, four categories and eleven subcategories. Nurses at outpatient clinics experienced communication with patients with ADHD nourishing and debilitating at the same time. Various communication techniques were used in combination with the knowledge of disabilities to create the best conditions for communication with patients. Good attitude and a good approach were reported to be important. Conclusion: Nurses in outpatient psychiatry experienced communication with patients with ADHD as both nourishing and debilitating. The nurses adapt their communication to the patient’s needs and abilities, and they treat all needs of the patients' different with respect. Nurses felt that a good attitude and a good treatment was important for communication with patients with ADHD.

Bakgrund: Psykiatrisjuksköterskan har historiskt sett pendlat mellan att vara omvårdnadsansvarig till att vara förlängd arm till andra yrkeskategorier som till exempel läkare. Studier visar att specialistsjuksköterskan har en komplex kompetens som hen upplever inte alltid lyfts av organisationen och att hen ofta upplever sig klämd emellan patienters, medarbetares och organisationens krav. Specialistsjuksköterskor i psykiatrisk vård börjar nu bli en bristvara och då deras roll, status och betydelse framstår som diffus   kan det bli svårt att rekrytera nya sjuksköterskor att utbilda sig och stanna kvar inom psykiatrisk vård. Då mycket få studier är genomförda i psykiatrisk öppenvård och med ledningsperspektiv var det av intresse att tillfråga just enhetschefer med ansvar att anställa personal. Syfte: Att beskriva enhetschefers uppfattningar om och förväntningar på specialistsjuksköterskans betydelse och roll i psykiatrisk öppenvården. Metod: Studien genomfördes som en empirisk intervjustudie med semistrukturerade frågor som ställdes individuellt till sju enhetschefer verksamma inom psykiatrisk öppenvård. Materialet bearbetades med en kvalitativ innehållsanalys med induktiv ansats. Resultat: I resultatet framkom huvudkategorin ”Arbetsuppgifter och förväntningar” med underkategorierna Bedömningar, Samordnande och samverkande roll, Läkemedelsadministrering, Utvecklingsarbete, Flexibla ansvarsområden, Bemötande och kommunikation samt Kompetens. Diskussion: Specialistsjuksköterskan har många olika roller att träda in i inom psykiatrisk öppenvård och förväntas använda sin kompetens där den behövs. / Background: Psychiatric nurses has historically oscillated between being responsible of nursing care to be an extended arm to other professionals such as physicians. Studies show that the specialist nurse has a complex competence that according to the nurses is not always highlighted by the organization and often find themselves trapped between patients, other employees and the organization's demands. Specialist nurses in psychiatric care are now becoming scarce and when their role, status and importance appears diffuse, it may be difficult to recruit new nurses to train and remain in psychiatric services. Since very few studies have been carried out in outpatient psychiatric services and management perspective, it was of interest to the matter to ask the views of unit managers with responsibility to hire staff. Aim: To describe unit managers' perceptions and expectations of the specialist nurse's importance and role in psychiatric outpatient services. Method: The study was conducted as an empirical interview study with semi-structured questions that were asked individually to seven unit managers occupied in psychiatric outpatient care. The material was processed with a qualitative content analysis with inductive approach. Results: The result showed the main category "Duties and expectations" with the subcategories Assessments, Coordinating and cooperative role, Drug administration, Development, Flexible responsibilities, Treatment and communication as well as Competence. Discussions: The specialistnurse has many variable roles to enter in psychiatric outpatient care and are expected to use their expertise where it is needed.

Background and Purpose A debate over the practice of physician self-referral has been ongoing in health care since the 1980s. At issue is the practice of physicians who refer patients to facilities in which they share a financial interest, a phenomenon known as referral for profit. Physician investment or ownership interest in ancillary (e.g., physical therapy) services has been shown to have an impact on utilization rates, costs, access to care, and quality of care. What has not been identified in previous research is the influence of physicians‘ selective referral on competing clinics, particularly the hospital-based outpatient centers that share their health care markets. The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between the emergence of orthopaedic physician owned physical therapy services (POPTS) and changes in physical therapy referrals made to two groups of not-for-profit, hospital-based outpatient physical therapy (OPPT) centers in one health care market. Methods This study examined the referrals made by orthopaedic physicians to two large hospital systems in the Orlando, Florida, outpatient physical therapy market between 1999 and 2007. This study was conducted using existing proprietary databases maintained by the Orlando Regional Healthcare System (ORHS) and Florida Hospital System (FHS), as well as phone surveys conducted by the primary investigator. Information regarding the orthopaedic physicians‘ ownership status and the patients‘ payer types was combined into analyses to determine if physician status was related to the number of physical therapy patients from each payer type referred, or the number of total referrals made to the hospital-based outpatient physical therapy facilities. Comparisons were made between physicians who became owners of physical therapy services during the study period and physicians who never became owners of physical therapy services. Mixed Linear Models (MLM) were used to test for the effects of physician ownership and the combined influence of physician ownership and payer type on referrals for OPPT. Point estimates and 95% confidence intervals were calculated for the mean differences between Group 1 and Group 3 physicians for changes in OPPT referrals over time. The analyses were conducted first with samples of physicians who met a minimum criterion of ten referrals within the first year of data included in the data sets. Use of this criterion resulted in a small pool of physicians who qualified for inclusion in the testing. Data were compared between years 1 and 5 and then between years 1 and 2 versus 4 and 5. The criterion for physicians‘ inclusion was revised for post hoc analysis in an attempt to increase the sample size. All of the statistical tests were repeated in post hoc with the larger samples of physicians who met the minimum criterion of an average of ten referrals per year for years 1 and 2 rather than just the referral count for year 1. Results Overall, there was no statistically significant change in the total referrals as a result of a change in physicians‘ ownership status. Tests for the influence of payer type, physician group, and ownership status on referrals also revealed no significant differences between the two physician groups. Point estimates of the differences between Group 1 and Group 3 for changes in mean referrals supported the hypothesized relationships between physicians‘ ownership status and total referrals, referrals of commercially insured patients, and referrals of underinsured patients; however, the 95% confidence intervals for the point estimates were consistent with the non-significant MLM results. The hypothesized relationship between POPTS and referrals of Medicare patients was not supported in any of the analyses. In post hoc testing of the combined influence of payer type, physician group, and ownership status on referrals, a three-way interaction between physician group, payer type, and status was found (p=0.034, α<0.05). Including a larger sample size in the post hoc analyses led to outcomes that were different than those seen in the initial statistical tests. Conclusion This research outlines a novel approach to analyzing the influence of physician ownership and payer type on referral behaviors. The findings suggest that physicians‘ ownership of physical therapy services was not a predictor of their referrals to hospital-based OPPT services. Specifically, there was no significant effect of physician ownership of OPPT services on the total volume of referrals made to two hospital-systems‘ OPPT clinics. There also was no significant relationship between physician ownership, payer type, and referrals made to the hospital-based clinics. The theory predicting that POPTS physicians would work to eliminate market competition by reducing referral volumes and retaining patients with more lucrative reimbursement for their own practices was not supported. However, post hoc analysis with a larger sample size provided some evidence that a larger sample may have revealed the hypothesized relationships between physician ownership, payer type, and referrals for OPPT. Future research utilizing larger samples and data tracking physicians‘ OPPT referrals from their origins to their final dispositions are needed to clarify the relationships between physicians‘ ownership of OPPT services and the referrals they make for those services.

This study explores the needs of teen and young adult cancer patients undergoing long-term chemotherapy treatments and the design of an outpatient clinic that accommodates this population’s unique needs. Most teens endure long-term treatments in a pediatric facility targeted primarily for children, while others are treated in adult facilities. Teens have different privacy and social needs than children, and while they are not adults, they are involved in their own treatment decisions, unlike children. The target age group for this study is teens and young adults, ages thirteen to twenty-two. A common theme emerged from research and interviews conducted in the project: these young patients feel an overwhelming sense of isolation. This informed the design of the clinic, which includes spaces where teens and young adults have private spaces for treatment, but larger group spaces that promote connections among each other. Pathways between the various spaces are important. Incorporating nature, environmentally conscious and healthy materials, accessibility, and comfort were essential considerations for the design. The design hypothesis for this project is that a place that targets the unique needs of teens and young adults could make a difference in their experience and ultimately in their healing.

Univerzita Karlova v Praze 1. léka ská fakulta Studijní program: Specializace v léka ství Studijní obor: Adiktologie Bc. Kate ina Sklená ová Francová ístup zam ený na lov ka (PCA) v psychoterapii závislostí: teoretická východiska, aplika ní možnosti a kompatibilita se sou asným systémem ambulantní pé e a jeho praxí. Person centred approach in psychotherapy of addiction: theoretical background, application possibilities and compatibility with the current system of outpatient care and practice. Diplomová práce Vedoucí práce: PhDr. Monika Nevoralová Praha, 2013 Abstrakt diplomové práce: Východiska: Mezi základní charakteristiky p ístupu zam eného na lov ka (PCA) ve vztahu klient- terapeut pat í mimo jiné pojmy bezpodmíne né p ijetí, empatie a autenticita. V minulosti se tento psychoterapeutický sm r nazýval nedirektivním. Dnes je tento název p ekonán pro jeho redukující edur ení, nicmén pojem nedirektivita by se dal ozna it jako další z jeho p ízna ných rys . Sou asný systém lé by a rehabilitace závislých v psychiatrických lé ebnách, terapeutických komunitách i ambulantních typech lé by je založen na kontrole, režimu, vedení, tvorb terapeutického plánu a jiných, zejména kognitivn -behaviorálních metod, které jsou v sou asné adiktologii "dominantní". Nabízí se proto otázka, zda PCA m že najít v adiktologii...

Master of Public Health / Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology / Katherine S. KuKanich / Hand hygiene by healthcare workers is an effective means of preventing healthcare-acquired infections. However, hand hygiene compliance can be low among healthcare workers. This study used introduction of a gel sanitizer and informational poster as interventional tools in attempt to improve hand hygiene in two outpatient healthcare clinics. Healthcare workers at two outpatient clinics were observed for frequency of hand hygiene (attempts vs. opportunities). Gel sanitizer and informational posters were introduced together as an intervention. Direct observation of hand hygiene frequency was performed during baseline, intervention, and follow-up. A post-study survey of healthcare workers was collected. In both clinics, baseline hand hygiene was poor (11% and 21%) but significantly improved (p[less than or equal to]0.0001) after interventions (36 and 54%), and was maintained (p>0.05) through the follow-up period (32 and 51%). Throughout the study, post-contact hygiene was statistically observed more than pre-contact hygiene. In both clinics, healthcare workers self-reported a preference for soap and water, yet observations showed that sanitizer use predominated over soap and water use when sanitizer was available after the intervention. Fifty per cent of the surveyed healthcare workers considered the introduction of gel sanitizer to be an effective motivating tool for improving hand hygiene. Hand hygiene performance by healthcare workers in outpatient clinics may benefit from promoting gel sanitizer and using informational posters. Direct observation by trained observers may provide more accurate information of hand hygiene tool preference compared with survey results.

To suffer from bipolar disorder can cause significant distress. Bipolar disorder causes severe shifts in mood. The person can, apart from having a normal mood, experience depressive episodes or a highly elevated mood – hypomania or mania. Psychoeducation as a complement to medicine treatment can help persons manage their disorder and reduce severe changes in mood. Little is known about psychoeducation programs in the country as a whole. Knowledge about these programs can be useful for evaluation and can contribute to valuable insights. The aim of this study was to survey the setup and content of psychoeducation programs for people with bipolar disorder in outpatient care in the country. To accomplish this a cross-sectional study was made through a web-based questionnaire sent to staff involved in outpatient psychoeducation. The Swedish National Quality Register for Bipolar Disorder – BipoläR contributed with contact information to the outpatient clinics. All 234 clinics involved were linked to BipoläR, 56 answers were returned resulting in the following information: Most of the psychoeducation programs were group-based. The major part used programs designed by themselves. Nurses were the most frequently staff involved. The mean amount of time for education delivery was 12 hours. The psychoeducation content was rich in important aspects related to the disorder. The programs were delivered through lectures and discussion. The conclusion of this study was the emphasis on group-based programs developed at the clinics, the quality content of programs and the possible need for more evidence-based programs. / Bipolär sjukdom kan vara svår att leva med då den medför stora variationer i personens sinnesstämning. Ett sätt att underlätta kan vara medverkan i patientutbildningsprogram som tillägg till medicinsk behandling. Detta kan bidra till ökad förståelse för sjukdomen och dess individuella uttryck och därmed göra den mer hanterbar. På flera öppenvårdsmottagningar för personer med bipolär sjukdom runt om i Sverige bedrivs patientutbildning. Någon sammanhållen beskrivning av utbildningarna finns inte. I samråd med personal hos Nationellt kvalitetsregister för personer med bipolär affektiv sjukdom (BipoläR) bedömdes dessa utbildningar vara intressanta att undersöka. Forskning har påvisat att patientutbildningsprogram har positiva effekter för att motverka depression, hypomani och mani vid bipolär sjukdom. Programmen kan se olika ut men utbildning i grupp verkar generellt ge bättre utfall än individuell utbildning. Det är oklart hur utbildningarna i landet ser ut och vi har därför valt att i denna studie kartlägga upplägg och innehåll i dessa utbildningar. Specialistsjuksköterskan i psykiatrisk vård ansvarar bland annat för att stödja patienter och deras anhöriga till lärande och beslutsfattande genom undervisning. Patientutbildning för personer med bipolär sjukdom ligger inom psykiatrisjuksköterskans kompetensområde och sjuksköterskan kan vara en lämplig förmedlare av sådan utbildning. En kartläggning av patientutbildningsprogrammen kan utgöra grund för utvärdering och därmed bidra till utveckling av det psykiatriska vårdandet. Syftet med denna undersökning var att kartlägga upplägg och innehåll i patientutbildningar för personer med bipolär sjukdom inom den psykiatriska öppenvården runt om i landet. Detta gjordes via en webbenkätundersökning riktad till personal involverade i patientutbildning på öppenvårdsmottagningar anslutna till BipoläR. Resultatet visade att de flesta utbildningar var grupputbildningar. Största delen av mottagningarna använde sig av egenutformade utbildningsprogram. Sjuksköterskor var den personalkategori som oftast gav patientutbildning, följt av läkare och psykologer. Utbildningarna hade ett medelvärde på 12 timmars utbildningstid. Erfarenhetsutbytet i utbildningarna sågs som ett värdefullt inslag. Studiens slutsatser var att enkätsvaren tyder på att det i landet fanns en övervikt av gruppbaserade utbildningsprogram för personer med bipolär sjukdom. De flesta mottagningar utformade sina egna program. Utbildningarna var innehållsmässigt rika på viktiga ämnen relaterade till olika aspekter av bipolär sjukdom. De verkade i genomsnitt även vara tidsmässigt tillräckligt långa för att kunna förmedla sitt innehåll. Sjuksköterskor var den personalkategori som oftast var involverad i patientutbildningarna och kunde därmed ge ett betydande bidrag i dessa. Det kan vara värdefullt med en tydligare evidensbas i utbildningarna.

Thesis advisor: Lisa A. Goodman / Those in poverty face myriad stressors, traumatic events, and ongoing hardships; and not surprisingly, struggle with a range of mental health issues. Yet, they are less likely to access mental health services than their middle-income counterparts, and when they do, they are more likely to drop out of treatment prematurely. Although researchers have found that when interventions are tailored to address poverty-related stressors outcomes are dramatically improved, the perspectives of those providing such treatment is rarely described. This qualitative descriptive study of twelve experienced psychologists working with clients in poverty aimed to fill this gap. The study explored the extent to which psychologists develop unique practices for working with low-income clients, as well as the personal and contextual factors that support or hinder these efforts. Findings can be distilled into three categories: Practices unique to working with low-income clients include strategies for addressing power dynamics, managing boundaries, and addressing external stressors as part of the therapeutic process. Therapist attributes key to working with low-income clients include possessing a values-based commitment to working with marginalized groups; possessing experience with, knowledge of, and empathy for the realities of living in poverty; possessing a high degree of self-awareness related to poverty; and possessing a willingness to be deeply affected by the work and cope with negative feelings. Contextual obstacles to working with low-income clients include agency-level and social service system-level challenges. Perhaps the most striking finding was participants' understanding of how conceptualizations of appropriate boundaries need to change in the context of work with this population. Many participants described, for example, giving food to their clients when they were hungry or giving them small amounts of money to help them take care of their most basic needs. The discussion section explores these findings in the context of ecological and feminist theoretical models and current research and describes the implications of the results for research, training, and practice. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Introdução. A ansiedade é um sentimento normal que prepara o organismo para situações adversas. É difícil de ser quantificada, porém pode ser estimada por meio de escalas subjetivas como a analógica visual, a comportamental e a verbal ou de maneira objetiva indireta por meio de parâmetros hemodinâmicos ou quantificação de hormônios do estresse no plasma ou na saliva. Cirurgias realizadas sob regime ambulatorial acarretam menor custo e menor índice de infecção hospitalar. No entanto, não existem dados suficientes para afirmar que a não internação hospitalar provoca menor grau de ansiedade nos pacientes. Objetivo. Quantificar e comparar mediante a utilização de escalas, questionários e dosagem do cortisol salivar, o grau de ansiedade de pacientes submetidas a cirurgias sob regime ambulatorial ou sob regime de internação. Casuística e método – Foram constituídos dois grupos de 12 pacientes cada um: grupo RA no qual as pacientes foram operadas eletivamente sob regime ambulatorial e grupo RI no qual as pacientes foram operadas eletivamente sob regime de internação. Todas as pacientes foram avaliadas quanto ao estado de ansiedade na véspera e no dia da cirurgia por meio da aplicação das escalas de Spielberger (traço e estado), verbal e analógica visual e da quantificação do cortisol salivar. Avaliou-se ainda o comportamento hemodinâmico. A coleta da saliva foi realizada em dois momentos: na véspera e no dia da cirurgia. Saliva para quantificação do cortisol foi coletada no sétimo e oitavo dias pós-operatório para avaliação do ritmo basal das pacientes. Resultados. Os dados demográficos entre os dois grupos, considerando idade e peso, mostraram-se estatisticamente idênticos. Em relação ao padrão hemodinâmico, não houve diferença entre os dois grupos de regime de internação na véspera da cirurgia. No dia da cirurgia, o grupo RA apresentou pressão arterial diastólica maior do que o grupo RI. Nos demais parâmetros hemodinâmicos (pressão arterial sistólica e freqüência cardíaca) não houve diferença entre os grupos. A avaliação da ansiedade verificada por meio da Escala Verbal não evidenciou diferença entre os grupos na véspera e no dia da cirurgia, enquanto que, no dia da cirurgia, as pacientes do regime ambulatorial apresentaram, na Escala Analógica Visual, escores de ansiedade maiores que as pacientes do regime de internação. Na escala de Spielberger, o traço-ansiedade encontrado nos grupos foi similar e o estado-ansiedade, na véspera da cirurgia, foi maior no grupo operado sob regime ambulatorial. Não houve diferença entre os grupos no tocante ao cortisol salivar. Conclusão. Pacientes operadas sob regime ambulatorial apresentaram maior grau de ansiedade do que as pacientes operadas sob regime de internação. / Introduction. Anxiety is a normal feeling that prepares the organism for adverse situations. It is hard to quantify, but can be estimated through subjective scales like the visual analogue, behavioral and verbal scales or in an indirect objective way, using hemodynamic parameters or quantification of stress hormones in plasma or saliva. Outpatient surgeries entail lower costs and hospital infection rates. However, there is no sufficient data to affirm that non hospitalization provokes lower anxiety levels in patients. Objective. To quantify and compare anxiety levels between patients submitted to outpatient or inpatient surgery using scales, questionnaires and salivary cortisol measurement. Methods. We constituted two groups with 12 patients each: group RA, in which patients were subject to elective outpatient surgery and group RI, in which patients were hospitalized for elective surgery. All patients were assessed for anxiety on the evening before and on the day of surgery by applying Spielberger’s state-trait anxiety, the verbal and visual analogue scales and by quantifying salivary cortisol. We also evaluated hemodynamic behavior. Saliva samples were collected at two times: on the evening before and on the day of surgery. Saliva for cortisol measurement was collected on the seventh and eighth day after surgery to evaluate patients’ baseline rhythm. Results. When considering age and weight, demographic data were statistically identical between both groups. On the evening before surgery, no differences were found in terms of hemodynamic standards. On the day of surgery, we found higher diastolic blood pressure for group RA than for group RI. No differences were found between both groups for other hemodynamic parameters (systolic blood pressure and heart rate). The results of the Verbal Scale did not show any difference in anxiety between the groups, neither on the evening before nor on the day of surgery. When using the Visual Analogue Scale, outpatients presented higher anxiety scores than inpatients on the day of surgery. On Spielberger’s scale, trait-anxiety in both groups was similar, while outpatients revealed higher state-anxiety on the evening before surgery. No differences were found in salivary cortisol levels. Conclusion. Patients operated on in an outpatient regime present higher anxiety levels than patients hospitalized for surgery.

Submitted by Suzana Dias (suzana.dias@famerp.br) on 2018-10-24T19:40:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ManoelPazLandim_dissert.pdf: 2190052 bytes, checksum: 481993ad32fdeb90f77a1b27bf9d7949 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-24T19:40:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ManoelPazLandim_dissert.pdf: 2190052 bytes, checksum: 481993ad32fdeb90f77a1b27bf9d7949 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-05 / The causal relationship between hypertension and the development of target organ damage (TOD) is very well established, but the contribution of absolute blood pressure values to the genesis of TOD has been questioned. This study makes a comparative analysis between the values of Blood Pressure and the triggering of Target Organ Lesions in a hypertensive population, in order to verify the possibility of a dependence between high blood pressure figures and the appearance of lesions. Objective - To relate blood pressure levels obtained by ABPM with the appearance of LVH, stroke, CAD and microalbuminuria in a selected population of hypertensive patients. Casuistic and Methods: One hundred and sixty two patients belonging to the FAMERP hypertension outpatient clinic who met the inclusion criteria were studied, and the occurrence of the outcomes was considered. The minimum period of follow-up was five years and the maximum period was fifteen years. At the end of the data collection, statistical analyzes were sufficient to answer if higher values of arterial pressure were related, or not, to greater number of TOD. We also sought to confirm existence of other related variables, which could contribute positively or negatively to the appearance of the outcomes. Results: Only the increase in left ventricular mass and the occurrence of CAD are significantly related to the abnormal behavior of the arterial pressure and, even then, only to the nocturnal mean higher than the reference for mass increase and the diastolic mean of 24 hour ABPM recorded at the end of the observation period for the CAD. The appearance of outcomes, objective of this study is significantly more related to metabolic factors, comorbidities and/or to epidemiological parameters than to the increase in numerical values of blood pressure. The appearance of microalbuminuria in the multivariate analysis was positively related to DMII (p= 0.0029) and TG (p= 0.003). The same can be observed for stroke (male gender with p= 0.009; HDL= 0.016; PAD= 0.003; microalbuminuria p= 0.003 and LVH at the end of the observation p= 0.029). Diabetes mellitus II was also protagonist in the evolution for LVH, with p= 0.030 in the univariate analysis and p= 0.037 when there was multivariate refining. When studying the onset of CAD, besides the pressure component, we have also recorded age older than or equal to 65 years (p= 0.019 in the univariate comparison and p= 0.002 in the multivariate), HDL-c (p= 0.009 in the univariate and p= 0.004 in the multivariate) and PAD (p= 0.047). Conclusions: Increases in blood pressure levels lato sensu were not accompanied by a corresponding increase in the number of CAD, LVH, stroke or microalbuminuria in the studied population, except non dipper / Introdução: A relação causal entre hipertensão e o desenvolvimento de lesões de órgãos-alvo (LOA) está muito bem estabelecida, mas a contribuição dos valores absolutos da pressão arterial na gênese das LOA tem sido questionada. Este estudo faz uma análise comparativa entre os valores de Pressão Arterial e o desencadeamento de Lesões de Órgão-Alvo em uma população de hipertensos, de maneira a verificar a possibilidade de ter havido entre eles uma dependência entre altas cifras tensionais e o aparecimento de lesões. Objetivos: Relacionar os níveis de pressão arterial obtidos pela monitorização ambulatorial da pressão arterial M.A.P.A. com o aparecimento de hipertrofia ventricular esquerda (HVE), acidente vascular cerebral (AVC), doença arterial coronariana (DAC) e microalbuminúria (MICROALB) em uma população selecionada de hipertensos. Casuística e Métodos: Estudamos 162 pacientes pertencentes ao ambulatório de Hipertensão da faculdade de medicina de São José do Rio Preto (FAMERP) que obedeceram aos critérios de inclusão e consideramos o aparecimento dos desfechos. O prazo mínimo de acompanhamento foi de cinco anos e o máximo de quinze anos. Ao final da coleta de dados fizemos as análises estatísticas suficientes para responder se valores mais altos de pressão arterial estiveram ou não relacionados com maior número de LOA. Também procuramos a existência de outras variáveis afins que pudessem contribuir positiva ou negativamente para o surgimento dos desfechos. Resultados: O aumento da massa ventricular esquerda e o surgimento de DAC estiveram relacionados significativamente com o comportamento anormal da pressão arterial. A média noturna superior à referência esteve relacionada positivamente com o aumento da massa e a média diastólica da M.A.P.A. de 24 horas registrada ao final do período de observação para a DAC. O surgimento dos desfechos, objetivo deste trabalho, esteve muito mais ligado a fatores metabólicos, co-morbidades e ou a parâmetros epidemiológicos do que ao aumento dos valores numéricos da pressão arterial. Na análise multivariada o surgimento de microalbuminúria relacionou-se positivamente com diabetes melitus tipo II (DMII) com p=0,0029 e triglicerídeos (TG) com valor de p=0,003. O mesmo pôde ser observado para AVC, gênero masculino com p= 0,009; fração HDL colesterol (HDL-c) com p= 0,016; doença arterial periférica (DAP) com valor de p= 0,003; possuir microalbuminúria (p= 0,003) e ter hipertrofia ventricular esquerda (HVE) ao término da observação, p= 0,029. DM II também se associou com a evolução para HVE, com p= 0,030 na análise univariada, e p= 0,037 quando houve o refino multivariado. Para o desfecho AVC, HDL-c, microalbuminúria e presença de DAP se associaram a este desfecho. Registramos outros fatores relacionados ao desfecho doença arterial coronariana (DAC), ou seja, idade ≥65 anos (p = 0,019 na comparação univariada e p = 0,004 na multivariada), possuir DAP (p = 0,47) e HDL-c (p = 0,009 na univariada e p = 0,004 na multivariada). Conclusões: O valor das cifras tensionais avaliadas pela M.A.P.A. não se associam a aumento de risco para número de DAC, HVE, AVC ou Microalbuminúria na população estudada, com exceção de descenso noturno incompleto ter se associado ao desenvolvimento de aumento da massa ventricular esquerda e da média diastólica de 24h ter se relacionado positivamente com a evolução para DAC. A fração HDL colesterol (HDL-c) correlaciona-se com a evolução para DAC e AVC. A concomitância de doença arterial periférica (DAP) previa está ligada a DAC e de Microalbuminúria (MICROALB) e hipertrofia ventricular esquerda (HVE) a AVC. Diabetes Mellitus (DM) relaciona-se a aumento da massa ventricular esquerda (MASS VE) e MICROALB. Os valores de triglicerídeos e de ácido úrico (AU) ligam-se ao desenvolvimento de MICROALB.