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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina
Print version ISSN 0120-0011
Abstract
GUARIN-LOAIZA, Gloria Mercedes and PINILLA-ROA, Análida Elizabeth. Adherence to antihypertensive treatment and its relation to quality of life of patients from two hospitals in Bogotá between 2013 and 2014. rev.fac.med. [online]. 2016, vol.64, n.4, pp.651-657. ISSN 0120-0011. https://doi.org/10.15446/revfacmed.v64n4.52217.
Introduction:
Hypertension has a prevalence of 12.3% in Colombia. Poor adherence to antihypertensive treatment and its relation to quality of life has not been yet determined.
Objective:
To determine adherence to antihypertensive treatment and establish its relationship with quality of life.
Materials and methods:
Morisky-Green (adhesion) and MINICHAL (quality of life) tests were used in an observational descriptive cross-sectional study, in which these instruments included demographic variables. During the implementation of the instruments, blood pressure was taken.
Results:
Out of 242 patients (inpatient and outpatient), 31.4% were adherent and 81% had controlled blood pressure with a quality of life related to health within an average range of 49.2%. Outpatients showed an association between quality of life variable and adherence (p <0.001).
Conclusions:
Assessing adherence and quality of life with specific, rapid, economical and useful tools both in outpatient and hospital settings is important; whenever antihypertensive medication is prescribed to a patient, quality of life should not be compromised and factors that may affect it must be intervened.
Keywords : Hypertension; Medication Adherence; Quality of Life; Drug Therapy (MeSH)..