This research objectified to analyze the self-management concept of hypertensive individuals. Theoretical documental study grounded on Walker and Avant's conceptual analysis by means of the Scientific Electronic Library Brasil and the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrievel System Online in the Coordination for Higher Education Staff Development (CAPES, in Portuguese) and the National Library of Medicine websites. Fourteen (14) articles and one (1) thesis were wholly selected and reviewed, Portuguese and English, temporal cut from January/2007 to September/2012. Background: missing doctor's appointments, non-compliance to blood pressure control treatment, to recommendations to proper diet standards and stress. Attributes: blood pressure control and disease management. Consequences: home monitoring of blood pressure with control improvement, accomplishment of disease management, compliance and sharing of the creation process of self-management goals and caring activities by the interdisciplinary team through individualized actions. It was concluded that the self-management concept is a dynamic, active process which requires knowledge, attitude, discipline, determination, commitment, self-regulation, empowerment and self-efficiency in order to manage the disease and achieve healthy living.
Disease management; Hypertension; Chronic disease; Nursing
