Drug compliance among hypertensive patients in a teaching hospital.
OBJECTIVE
To determine the compliance rate and associated factors among hypertensive patients in a teaching hospital.


METHODS
A cross-sectional study.


METHODS
Ethical approval taken from the Institutional Ethics Committee (No. 00101/9/2013). One hundred adult hypertensive patients were interviewed using a pretested, structured, closed ended questionnaire. Inclusion criteria include all adult hypertensive patients attending outpatient clinic from 1stto 28thNovember 2013 at King Saud Medical City. Exclusion criteria include only if the patient refuse to participate in the study.


RESULTS
After calculating the compliance of each patient, we found that 63 of the patients had >80% compliance rate. The most common causes of noncompliance were felt good (reported by 59 patients out of 100), simply forgot (56%), had problems taking pills at specified time (55%), and felt asleep through dose time (52%).


CONCLUSIONS
The compliance rate with medications was good, but there was a proportion of patients were noncompliant because maybe they need better education and family support.
Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Alanzi
Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Aldohayan
Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Alsohaim
Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Alqumaizi
Anti-hypertensive drugs; compliance; hypertension