Correlations between subjective compliance, objective compliance, and factors determining compliance in geriatric hypertensive patients treated with triamterene and hydrochlorothiazide.
There are correlations between objective and subjective compliances on the one hand and factors determining compliance (3 times drug intake per day, no support by the family to get over the disease and no nicotine abuse). In agreement with the literature, mainly subjective criteria (due to disease, therapy, doctor, and environment) influence compliance strongly. To realize their personal psychological task to help the patients even better it is of importance for the doctors to analyze the variability of these parameters. Measures to improve compliance, such as better psychological guidance for the patient taking these factors and the patient's personality into consideration, can be helpful to improve the relatively poor compliance reported in the literature to be as little as 20-50%.
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Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany.
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Hoffmann
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D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004232:Diuretics / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006852:Hydrochlorothiazide / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010349:Patient Compliance; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012737:Sex Factors; D049993:Sodium Chloride Symporter Inhibitors / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014223:Triamterene / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D004232:Diuretics; D049993:Sodium Chloride Symporter Inhibitors; D006852:Hydrochlorothiazide; D014223:Triamterene