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.

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