[A primary study of the factors related to the patients' adherence of anti-hypertensive therapy].
An interview covering demographic information, history of hypertension as well as medical and health-related questions was conducted on 540 hypertension patients in Chengdu. The objective of the study was to analyse the factors related to the adherence to antihypertensive therapy of these patients. The simple analysis showed that the education level of the patients, the type of payment for visiting physician, the convenience of visiting physician, the awareness of the severity of hypertension, the average family income of the patients were related to the adherence to therapy. The step multi-regression analysis showed that the type of payment for visiting physician, the convenience of visiting physician and the average family income were related to the adherence to antihypertensive therapy.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016312:Treatment Refusal