Adherence to hypertensive treatment among patients coming to rural health and training centre of a medical college: A cross sectional study
Journal Title: The Journal of Community Health Management - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction Aim of the study was to assess the extent of adherence to anti hypertensive medications and to assess various socio demographic and other risk factors influencing adherence among the hypertensive patients attending rural health centre in TelanganaMaterials and MethodTotal of 170 hypertensive patients who have visited rural health centre between November 2017 to March 2018 were interviewed to assess the extent of adherence to anti hypertensive medications Result53 of study population were females and majority 364 belong to 5665 years of age group70 of study population were illiterates and most 642 of the subjects belong to lower middle socio economic status Majority 559 of study population has to travel 05 hour from the rural health centre 50 of the patients showed high adherence Females 611 were significantly more adherent to medication compared to males375 High adherence was observed among housewives706 lower class571 and widowed579 those who need to travel for comorbities 565 were more adherent Persons with both familial history and no familiar history have same adherenceConclusionOnly half of the study subjects were found to be adherent to their treatment In the current study it was observed that sex employment status religion and distance from RHTC were significantly associated with the adherence to treatment Study population with the comorbidties with habits like smoking and tobacco chewing were more adherent KeywordsAdherence Rural health centre Medication Comorbidities Time Tobacco
Authors and Affiliations
Kishore Yadav Jothula, Abhishek P, Praveena Ganapa, Pramodh Reddy P, Navya Krishna Naidu
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- EP ID EP486899
- DOI 10.18231/2394-2738.2018.0020
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