Adherence to pharmacological treatment of hypertension in family health program

• Autor(a) principal: Dias,Tracy Kelly
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Netto,Antonio C. M. Godinho, Teixeira,André Luiz, Soares,Gabriela, Almeida,Flávia Passos de, Costa,Juliana Chaves, Ramos,Plínio Santos, Ricardo,Djalma Rabelo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ggaging.com/details/100
• topic: Hypertension.Drugs. Drug therapy. Medication adherence.

<p><b>OBJECTIVE:</b> to verify prevalence of adherence to pharmacological treatment of hypertension in elderly patients.<br> <b>METHODS:</b> We assessed 504 volunteers (316 women) aged 70 ± 8 years (mean ± SD), with hypertension in a primary care unit. Home visits were made to the questionnaire and collecting their data. The questionnaire consists of 10 questions related to socio-demographic characteristics of volunteers and four other issues related to adherence to pharmacological treatment. After the questionnaire was generated based on Morisky (0 = High adherence, 1 and 2 = Average adherence; 3:04 = low adherence) score.<br> <b>RESULTS:</b> Of the 504 individuals evaluated 56.7% demonstrated adherence to pharmacological treatment of hypertension. Individuals over 10 years of hypertension are more adherent to treatment (p &lt; 0.001), as well as women when compared to men (p = 0.04). Participation in educational campaigns did not affect adherence to treatment of hypertension (p = 024), just as the doctor accompanying the patient (p = 0.13).<br> <b>CONCLUSION:</b> Adherence to drug treatment for hypertension was not influenced by socioeconomic factors such as family income, education and occupation in this population.</p>