Adherence to medicine treatment in high blood pressure patients followed at the Family Health Centers in the city of Ribeirão Preto, SP. / Adesão ao tratamento farmacológico de pacientes hipertensos seguidos nos núcleos de saúde da família do município de Ribeirão Preto, SP

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

It is estimated that patientsadherence to medicine treatment against high blood pressure varies between 50 and 70%. The low adherence or non-adherence to high blood pressure medicine treatment is a public health problem and should be considered one of the main obstacles to a successful high blood pressure treatment. The high prevalence of such condition and devastating consequences resulting from the disease due to inadequate control of blood pressure have been frequently related to untimely deaths. The present study aims to analyze the adherence to medicine treatment of high blood pressure patients followed at the Family Health Centers I, III, IV and V in the city of Ribeirão Preto - SP. 109 patients were interviewed by using the Morisky-Green Test to measure the level of adherence to medicine treatment. Several conditions which could be related to the level of adherence were studied as well, such as: social-economic conditions, factors related to the health centers team and service, factors related to the therapy itself, level of knowledge about the disease and factors related to the patient. The analysis of data was accomplished by using the statistics program Epi-Info version 6.0 and the software SAS. We observed a predominance of 84% of the female sex, average age 61.4, 56% married, 81.7% white, 65.2% having low scholarity and 45% housewives. The patientsadherence was checked by using criteria 1 and 2 of the Morisky-Green Test. According to criterion 1 of the test, 79.8% of the patients were classified as more adherent and 20.2% as less adherent. According to criterion 2, 43.1% of the patients were more adherent and 56.9% less adherent. In regard to the possible causes of non-adherence to treatment, we identified statistically important associations between the conditions "doctor reliability" and "quantity of high blood pressure medicines used" with the level of adherence, according to criterion 2 of the Morisky-Green Test. The pharmacist is a health care professional who, by means of Pharmaceutical Care has been studying and identifying the causes of low adherence to treatments and also implementing strategies in order to solve this problem in collaboration with the patients.

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arterial hypertension family health centers. hipertensão arterial núcleos de saúde da família. adherence adesão

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