%0 Journal Article
%T Patients Related Factors Associated with Non-Adherence to Antihypertensive Medication among Patients at Chuka Referral Hospital, Kenya
%A Charity Ngugi Gikunda
%A Lucy Gitonga
%J Open Journal of Clinical Diagnostics
%P 90-113
%@ 2162-5824
%D 2019
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojcd.2019.93007
%X <p style=\"text-align:justify;\">
	<span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Antihypertensive
medication is one way to manage hypertension but many hypertensive patie</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">nts do not optimize drug therapy to achieve blood
pressure control. Hypertensive medication non-adherence continues to become </span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">a </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">contributing
factor to hypertensive complications like heart attacks, heart failure,</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> stroke, kidney disease. Prevalence of non-adherence
to antihypertensive treatment is not known but it¡¯s thought to be increas</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">ing</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">. Associated factors of non-adherence are complex,</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">are both internal and external to the patient but
are difficult to extrapolate. This can partly be because the determinants of
non-adherence to hypertensive may have a locality effect due to many factors
such </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">as </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">culture and health system in
a given locality. Hence, studies from one region may not have a cross</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">-</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">application. Therefore, </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">there is </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">the need to study the factors associated with non-adherence
at a local scale.</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Descriptive study design was adopted to guide the
implementation of the study. The population comprised of 575 people among
doctors, pharmacists, nurses, record officers and hypertension patients. The
respondents were identified through simple random sampling and a sample size of
81 patients was achieved and 10 health care providers includ</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">ing</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> doctors, pharmacist</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">s</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">, record officers and nurses were also interviewed
through census method. Data was collected between the month of April and May
2019. Questionnaire</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">s</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> were used as data collection t</span><span><span
%K Hypertension
%K Nonadherence
%K Medication
%K Inhibiting Factors
%K High Blood Pressure
%K Patients¡¯ Characteristics
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