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COMPLIANCE OF HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS TO THERAPY | ||
| AL-TAQANI | ||
| Article 1, Volume 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 105-113 | ||
| Author | ||
| Muna F. Abbas | ||
| Abstract | ||
| A cross-sectional study of hypertensive patients was conducted in Sumer Public Medical Clinic , and drug complince was estimated according to regularity of using drugs and blood pressure control . Two hundred sixty hypertensive patients were included in this study . the data were collected by using a specially designed questionnaire . the were tested using the Chi-square test . The results revealed that the mean age of the study sample was (57.7+ 10.6 years) , (55.7%) had the disase for more than 5 years . And it was found that only (39.6%) had controlled blood pressure . And (53.1%) of the patients had been treated with one drug , (62.7%) were taking a single dose/ day and (32.7%) took their drugs irregularly , of whom (55.4%) because of emergence of side effect . It was concluded that although about two thirds of the patients were compliant with their thrapy , only little mor than one third had controlled blood pressure which indicates bad management of those patients , and the number of drugs is the most important factor that highly affect the regularity of drugs taken by the patients and consequently on control of blood pressure . | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Hypertension; Compliance; drug therapy; education | ||
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