Protocol for hypertensive individuals assisted in Basic Health Care.

Hypertension has low control rate in Brazil and around the World, resulting in social and medical costs; thus there is the need to apply control strategies. This study aimed to create and validate a protocol for consultation and monitoring of hypertensive patients attended in primary health care. It is constituted a methodological research which uses the Delphi method for content validation. The analysis of the protocol by experts was performed in three cycles, using a scale that was not important to extremely important, with a graduation from 1 to 5. The analysis was performed by the Likert scale, percentage of agreement, content validation index, Pearson correlation. The percentage of agreement was 96%. The CVI of 0.98. The Likert scale scored items, at least, as very important. The Pearson correlation was positive for all items ranging from moderate to strong. The protocol is composed of 53 items, divided into seven dimensions. It was concluded that the protocol enables more expressive and systematics monitoring of hypertensive patients and it identifies social and individual conditions that contribute to high blood pressure, so it may be used to guide the consultation, encouraging dialogue between the professional and patient and effective recording of care.