Adherence to antihypertensive treatment and its relation to quality of life of patients from two hospitals in Bogotá between 2013 and 2014

Abstract

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 crosssectional 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

• Hipertensión
• Cumplimiento de la medicación
• Calidad de vida
• Farmacoterapia