Avaliação da disposição para o perdão em pacientes com hipertensão arterial sistêmica

Objective: To assess the willingness to forgive in individuals with systemic arterial hypertension. Methodology: this is a cross-sectional and quantitative study with a descriptive and analytical approach. The collection period took place between March 2020 and January 2021. 81 hypertensive patients assisted by the family health clinic “Dr. Davi Marcos de Lima”. Those involved were invited to answer a questionnaire containing sociodemographic data and the Willingness to Forgive Scale. In addition, for statistical analysis, a significance level of 95% was considered. Results: the sample consisted of 81 individuals. In the present study, there was a prevalence of females (66.7%), aged over or equal to 60 years (63%) and 53.7% had incomplete Elementary School. There was a predominance of married individuals 50.6%; 66.7% live with a partner, 29.6% live with only one person. The majority of individuals 69.1% do not work and/or are retired. The predominant religion was Catholic with 74.1%. Correlating the sociodemographic data with the forgiveness scale, the variables of marital status and number of people living with the hypertensive were significant (p-value <0.005). Conclusion: With this study, it can be seen that hypertensive patients were willing to forgive. In addition, the study showed that marital status “married” and “others” interfere with the individual's willingness to forgive and that hypertensive individuals who live with one to three individuals are willing to forgive more.