Adhesión al tratamiento farmacológico antihipertensivo en pacientes ingresados de la clínica Santa Ana, Cuenca abril- septiembre 2015

Abstract

Objective: To determine adherence to antihypertensive drug treatment in patients admitted to the clinic Santa Ana, Abril- September 2015 Basin. Methods: A quantitative descriptive study, the sample was obtained in the same hypertensive patients hospitalized at the clinic Santa Ana To calculate 66 hypertensive patients hospitalized total sample was used. The instrument used was a previously validated form (Test Morisky Green and Battle). The results were processed in the SPSS system 15.00 Results: The study found that antihypertensive therapy adherence in patients admitted to the Clinica Santa Ana is 30.3%, while 69.7% do not meet the antihypertensive adherence. Conclusions: In the nonadherent hypertensive patients, the reason for its failure was forgetting taking antihypertensive medication, besides the taking of the medication hypotensive hours indicated no more than a sedentary life.