Adherence to medication in patients suffering from hypertension: A cross sectional study
Journal Title: IP International Journal of Comprehensive and Advanced Pharmacology - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction Hypertension is a global health challenge and responsible for about 128 percent of the total of all global deaths due to cardiovascular diseases The prevention of cardiovascular disease requires long term adherence to antihypertensive medication Studies have shown that over half of all hypertensive patients do not take any treatment and there is requirement of efforts on all levels to increase the adherence Data on adherence to medication in patients suffering from hypertension is lacking hence we designed this study to assess the adherence to medication in patients suffering from hypertension Materials and Method This observational crosssectional study was conducted participants suffering from hypertension for the past 12 months and on treatment A detailed history thorough medical examination and counselling for life style modifications was done on all participants enrolled The patients were given questionnaire of Morisky Medication Adherence Scale8 MMAS8 and WHOQOL Bref to be filled up the questionnaire in a separate room Results A total of 152 patients participated in the study with mean number of medication used being 168079person 74 of patients were taking combination of drugs and mean MMAS8 Score was 430107 The participants were subdivided into two groups Group 1 on single medication and Group 2 on two or more medications Group 1 had significantly higher MMAS8 scores and better quality of life Conclusion Patients on single medication had significantly better adherence slightly better quality of life and better adherence correlation as compared to patients on more than two medications Keywords Hypertension Adherence Quality of life Medication
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Jaspreet Kaur, Prithpal S Matreja
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