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Stein, Aryeh D.; Stoyanovsky, Vassil; Mincheva, Valentina M.; Dimitrov, Emil; Hodjeva, Donka; Petkov, Anton; Tsanova, Veska

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“…Hypertension is a condition with a tremendous economic and public health impact which contributes to disability, health care costs and mortality [1]. Although the management and control of hypertension reduces morbidity and mortality, the percentage of patients with controlled hypertension has been reported to vary between 5.4% and 58% worldwide [2].…”

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Relationship of treatment satisfaction to medication adherence: findings from a cross-sectional survey among hypertensive patients in Palestine

Zyoud

Al-Jabi

Sweileh

et al. 2013

Health Qual Life Outcomes

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BackgroundThe concepts of medication adherence and Treatment satisfactions are commonly used in clinical research for assessing pharmaceutical care and improving treatment outcomes. Generally, one would expect a positive relationship between the two concepts. The objectives of this study were to investigate the factors associated with adherence to antihypertensive therapy among hypertensive patients and to assess the relationship between antihypertensive medication adherence and treatment satisfaction.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted, adopting the Morisky eight-item Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS) for the assessment of medication adherence and using the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM 1.4) for the assessment of treatment satisfaction. Descriptive and comparative statistics were used to describe socio-demographic and disease-related characteristics of the patients. All analyses were performed using SPSS v 15.0.ResultsFour hundred and ten hypertensive patients were enrolled in the study. The mean age of participants was 58.38 ± 10.65 years; 52% were female and 36.8% had low antihypertensive medication adherence. There was a significant difference in the mean scores in the Effectiveness (p < 0.001), Convenience (p < 0.001), and Global Satisfaction (p < 0.001) domains, but not in the Side Effects (p = 0.466) domain among patients with different levels of adherence. After adjustment for covariates using multiple linear regression, global treatment satisfaction was still statistically significantly (p = 0.001) associated with medication adherence.ConclusionsLow treatment satisfaction may be an important barrier for achieving high rates of adherence to treatment. These study findings could be helpful in clinical practice, mainly in the early treatment of hypertensive patients, at a point where improving treatment satisfaction is still possible.

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Relationship of treatment satisfaction to medication adherence: findings from a cross-sectional survey among hypertensive patients in Palestine

Zyoud

Al-Jabi

Sweileh

et al. 2013

Health Qual Life Outcomes

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“…Hypertension is a condition with a tremendous economic and public health impact which contributes to disability, increase health care costs and mortality. 1 It affects up to 37% of global adult population and is estimated that 7.1 million deaths are due to hypertension. 2 Although the management and control of hypertension reduces morbidity and mortality, paradoxically the percentage of patients with controlled hypertension has been reported to vary between 5.4% and 58% only worldwide.…”

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Doctor-Patient Communication to Improve Adherence to Anti- Hypertensive Treatment

Amin

Kabir

Karami

et al. 2019

Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull

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Background: Non-adherence to medication increases patient’s risk of morbidity, mortality and economic wastage of scare medical resources. This study was conducted to assess the role of doctor-patient communication and duration of consultation, as tools to improve adherence to hypertension treatment. Methods: Data of this cross-sectional study were collected by face to face interview and document review at Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka among 253 conveniently recruited hypertensive patients attending outpatient department during July 2016 to June 2017. Mean-age of the respondents was 49.2 (±10.4) years, mostly married male (54.9% male, 95.3% married). Mean consultation duration experienced by the respondents was 5.3 (± 1.3) minutes. Among the participants, 63.64% experienced effective communication, 66% were adherent and 34% were non-adherent to medication. Among the respondents with effective communication, 92.5% were adherent to medication. On the contrary, among the respondents with ineffective communication, 80.4% were non-adherent. Results: Duration of consultation had significant association with adherence to hypertension treatment (p<0.001). Association between communication and adherence to medication was highly significant (p<0.001). Binary logistic regression revealed that respondents were 3.23 times more adherent to medication with favorable response to the item- ‘Doctor gave me as much information as I wanted’ (p = 0.041); and 10.24 times with favorable response to the item- ‘Doctor checked to be sure that I understood everything’(p=0.006). Patients’ faithfulness in carrying out prescription and proscriptions correctly, depends on the adequacy and accuracy of patient’s knowledge of what they were supposed to do and on their motivation. Conclusion: Thus, it is necessary to formulate interventions to scale up communication skill of the physicians, and devise effective ways to educate patients on medication of chronic diseases. Further studies on characteristics of consultation to make it motivating and more effective may be conducted. Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull 2018; 44: 145-151

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Perceived barriers to the development of modern public health in Bulgaria: a qualitative study

Scott

Powles

Thomas

et al. 2010

Int J Public Health

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Cited by 20 publications

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Relationship of treatment satisfaction to medication adherence: findings from a cross-sectional survey among hypertensive patients in Palestine

Relationship of treatment satisfaction to medication adherence: findings from a cross-sectional survey among hypertensive patients in Palestine

Doctor-Patient Communication to Improve Adherence to Anti- Hypertensive Treatment

Perceived barriers to the development of modern public health in Bulgaria: a qualitative study

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