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Salud(i)Ciencia

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SADAKATHULLA, Ibrahim; MATETI, Uday Venkat; KELLARAI, Adithi  and  BHAT, Krishna. Adhering to antihypertensive treatment is vitally important . Salud(i)Ciencia [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.4, pp.1-10. ISSN 1667-8682.  http://dx.doi.org/www.dx.doi.org/10.21840/siic/157368.

Introduction: Hypertension is one of the most common cardiovascular risk factors but the medication adherence rate among hypertensive patients is low. Objectives: To develop, validate and test the reliability of the Medication Adherence Questionnaire (MAQ) in hypertensive patients. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among hypertensive patients in the Department of General Medicine for eight months. The MAQ was prepared by referring to previously validated questionnaires and other related medication adherence studies. It was validated by the expert committee and tested for test-retest reliability. The medication adherence data was collected from patients who had received at least one antihypertensive medication in the past three months. Results: The mean medication adherence score for the test and re-test were 66.25 + 19.49 and 67.50 + 19.19 respectively, and the test-retest reliability of MAQ was 0.979. Out of 299 patients, 180 (60.20%) were males, and 118 (39.46%) were females. In our study population, most of the patients were found to have medium medication adherence (53.84%) followed by low medication adherence (39.13%) and high medication adherence (7.02%). Conclusion: The self-reported 8-item MAQ was developed and tested for reliability in South Indian hypertensive patients.The mean medication adherence of the study population was 71.77 + 13.94, which indicates low medication adherence to antihypertensive treatment.

Keywords : hypertension; medication adherence; blood pressure; treatment; chronic disease.

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