Adherencia a la terapéutica farmacológica en pacientes hipertensos del Hospital "José Carrasco Arteaga" del IESS. Cuenca 2007

Abstract

Objective. To establish the prevalence of no adherence to the pharmacologic therapeutic and to relate it to the variables: Sex, age, educational level, social security type, knowledge of the disease, time of treatment, pharmacologic treatment, dose, synchrony in the consumption of medications, collateral effects, access to medications, doctor - patient information and support to the fulfillment. Methods and materials. Cross sectional study; Population: The hypertensive patients attended during July 2007; Randomized Sample 93 patients; A later visit was carried out at home and a variables form was applied; Beside the medication count was made. Fulfillers were considered those persons who consumed between 80 and 100% of the medications, taken at the same hour the day previous and the visit day. Non Fulfillers consumed less of the 80% and over the 100% or those who had between 80 and 100% fulfillment, but their schedule varied between a day and another one. Results. The prevalence was 79,57%. They were representative: Age less than 66 years old, PR 1.21; A synchronic consumption of medications, PR 1.17; No access to medications PR 1.17; multi-drug treatment PR 1.13; Being active, voluntary, peasant, craft affiliate to the Social Security PR 1.04; Collateral effects of the medications PR 1.04. Conclusion. The prevalence of no adherence to the pharmacologic treatment is high. There was no statistically significant association in relation to the studied factors.